Major Technological Developments occurred in communication systems have brought with the information age. The information age, "information" has become a much more important position than ever. How persistent change and transform will be provided will be more important than the necessity of change in information age. The fact which is called change deeply affects all social system’s living cultures and management types with fast information increase, fast development and fast communication. Evolving technology, changing environmental conditions, increasing information level, social-cultural and economic innovations cause to appear new management perceptiveness, application and style. “Leadership” plays a part in the management, perceptiveness and success of this changing process. Leadership, in parallel to these changes has changed and selfrenewed itself. In this article, the concepts of “leader and the manager” are evaluated, the differences between them are established, characteristics of leaders which are expected and the issue how the leaders have changed are discussed. Eventually, in our age the issue of leadership and characteristics are discussed.