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This paper aims to characterize the management skills that leaders count with, and how these contribute to exercise their duties and the impact on management. The type of study used was the exploratory - descriptive one. To carry out this work, it was designed an instrument of 18 questions and was applied to 786 leaders of mid-sized businesses in the Pacific, Caribbean and Andean regions, that allowed to identify the characteristics of leaders, their ways of conduct and behavior among others; it can be concluded generally that leaders have clear what this concept means, they have a relational leadership profile, they use in a greater proportion oral communication, they behave as reagents leaders, very busy and with high stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today organization faces a context of uncertainly and risk, just like socie-ties, that rises levels of complexity and dynamism never seen before. In this constantly changing reality, formless, liquid, the traditional models of leadership, attributes to a single person, are not adequate to respond to pre-vailing enterprise, that's characterized for constant environmental change, and managing change, all this make necessary transform traditional models of leadership to liquid, and make this respond to the new complex systemic logics in organizational area; a new model of leadership is the objective of this paper. In this task, we will check over leadership traditional models from final 20 century, and initial proposal of early 21 century, trying to generate a most functional response to actual organizational reality. The result is a conceptual leadership model based in changing and mix action, make possible by different actors and moments, in alternate moments, but also jointed, in a new social space organizational, transdisciplinary based, making liquid the inside organization, responding in a better way to li-quid, uncertainly, risked environment. Liquid leadership, is both a proposal and an answer to complementary requirements of actual organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]