领导科学是一门研究领导活动的内在矛盾运动及其规律的新兴学科。领导活动是人类社会实践活动的一个重要组成部分,正象人类的其它社会实践一样。它也有自已的特定领域和特殊规律。领导活动的规律就是领导者与被领导者之间,领导者和被,领导者与客观环境之间相互依存、相互联系和相互制约的规律。领导活动是否有规律可循?长期以来人们存在着不同的认识。有人认为,领导凭借的是权力和领导者的意志、能力等等,具有很大的主观随意性和神秘性,因此,无规律可育。与此相反,马克思主义认为领导活动是人类的客观实践活动,是有规律的。毛泽东把领导活动规律作为科学概念提出来,并做了系统的阐述。毛泽东在《中国革命战争的战略问题》一文中讲的“战争指导规律”就是指在战争条件下的领导活动规律。他指出:“指挥员在战 Leadership science is a new discipline that studies the internal contradictions and laws governing leadership activities. Leadership is an important part of the practice of human society, just as any other social practice in human beings. It also has its own specific areas and special laws. The law of leadership activity is the law of interdependence, interconnection and mutual restraint between leader and leader, leader and leader, objective environment. Is there any regularity in leadership activities? People have long had different understandings. Some people think that leaders rely on the power and leadership will, ability and so on, with great subjectivity and mystery, therefore, irregular and fertile. On the contrary, Marxism holds that leadership is an objective practice of mankind and is regular. Mao Zedong proposed the law of leadership as a scientific concept and gave a systematic exposition. Mao Zedong’s “guiding principle of war” in his article “The Strategic Issue of the Chinese Revolutionary War” refers to the law of leadership activities under the conditions of war. He pointed out: "The commander is fighting