Extraordinary leadership offers a creative, innovative and human-based leadership approach that goes beyond traditional boundaries. These leaders are important for achieving success and making it sustainable in the ever-changing business world. In recent years, extraordinary leaders have emerged as a result of the re-questioning of leadership as a result of chaos, uncertainty and confusion along with change and renewal.

Throughout history, leaders have influenced their followers and achieved great events and shaped the fate of both countries and the world. Different examples of leadership in the political, economic, military and religious fields have left deep marks in history. Today, names such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are among the leaders who have revolutionized the management and functioning of organizations and attracted attention. On the other hand, global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic have created an important basis for evaluating the extraordinary leadership characteristics of political leaders through their decisions and practices. Leadership approaches during the pandemic process have made the roles of leaders more evident in terms of crisis management and guiding society.

Extraordinary situations such as crisis, change and chaos usually pave the way for the emergence of extraordinary leadership. In such conditions, the behaviors displayed by leaders have a great impact on their followers and shape the leadership process. The first step in becoming an extraordinary leader is for the leader to evaluate his or her own behaviors. This requires questioning whether the behaviors he or she expects from followers are consistent with the attitudes he or she displays. People focus on what leaders do rather than what they say, and the leader's actions play a decisive role in the behaviors of followers. Therefore, it is critical for the leader to display a consistent, exemplary, and inspiring stance.

This study conceptually addresses extraordinary leadership that emerges in chaos, crisis, and chaotic situations, concepts related to extraordinary leadership, types of extraordinary leadership, and exemplary events experienced in recent years.