Leadership 4.0. New definition and distinguishing features

This article aims to identify an original set of key distinguishing features that will help define leadership in the new circumstances of Industry 4.0. It is currently referred to as leadership 4.0. To achieve this goal, a comprehensive analysis of the subject literature was carried out, referring to both classic approaches to leadership and newer proposals of selected authors - adapted to the aforementioned conditions of the turbulent environment. As a result of the work carried out, the authors of the article propose to implement a research procedure based on the use of the pre-developed set of research characteristics of leadership 4.0, as well as the proposed research procedure.