The Importance of Leadership in Selected Business Excellence Models

Leadership, as one of the crucial elements or perspectives of modern models focused to the improving quality systematically, creates inevitable conditions for achieving the success and excellence. The aim of this paper is to identify the importance of leadership in selected Business Excellence models, on the grounds of comparative analysis. The main conclusions of this study are: the criterion relating to leadership is included in all analysed models, in all analysed models has this criterion not less as 100 points, average importance of this criterion is around 21% and average points is around 118. This study is based on information gathered through extensive literature review (documents about the models, research publication, research studies) using internet and research databases and the author's own experiences.