The research concerning the leader's personality features and social behavour have interested the scientific community for more than a century. This research interest proved to be incomplete without the interdisciplinary approach meant to include communication studies. The research put forth the concept of leadership, defined as the leader's capacity to determine a group of people to co-operate with her/him in order to achieve the objectives, relying on a strong foundation of commitment and motivation. The second direction approached concerns the contrast between the leader and the manager, since speciality literature demonstrates there is no equivalence between a leader and a manager. I analysed the main typologies of leaders, reaching the conclusion that a leader's performance is influenced by the group characteristics, the leader's characteristics, the subordinate people's characteristics and the organizational structure characteristics, with the prevailance of the leaders' individual behaviours. Studying the leader's profile, we explicitly referred to multiple intelligences (MI) and emotional intelligence (EI). The research relies on a survey applied on a FJCS master students' sample of about a hundred subjects, concerning their self-portraits as leaders.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]