Leadership is an important part of management, planning and organizing, the main role of leadership is influencing others to achieve the stated goals. This is evidence that the leader may be a weak manager if the planning is poor which causes the group to go in the wrong direction. As a result, although it can move the work team, they do not go towards achieving organizational goals. Leadership is related to processes that affect people so that they reach the target under certain circumstances. Leadership has been described as the completion of work through people or groups and the manager's performance will depend on his ability as a manager. This means being able to influence people or groups to achieve the desired results and set together

In order to address the challenges of globalization which are marked by the existence of a very tight and sharp global competition, in several countries it has been trying to revitalize education. This revitalization also included changes in the paradigm of educational leadership, especially in terms of the pattern of superior-subordinate relations, which was originally hierarchical-command towards a common partnership. In supervisor-subordinate relationships that are hierarchical-command, often placing subordinates as powerless objects. Coercion of will and pragmatism is an attitude and behavior that often colors the command-bureaucratic-hierarchical leadership, which in the end this has a fatal impact on the innovative and creative attitude of each subordinate. In carrying out their duties and obligations, they tend to be a priori and act only on the basis of the leader's orders. With these conditions, ultimately superior performance will be difficult.

The problem of current educational leadership shows complexity, both in terms of the components of education management, and the environment that influence the continuity of an education. Even on the one hand must meet SKL, on the other hand faced with limited resources. Whether human resources or financial resources, facilities and infrastructure. All the problems that arise in the world of education continue to develop like dynamic spirals. But in order to avoid chaos, leadership is required which has basic life to solve problems. Therefore teaching and learning beliefs. seen as science and as art. Problems that arise can be contradictory, can be repeated, so creative and dynamic interaction between teachers and students is needed.