The progression of leadership moves from traditional and authoritarian to more participative and empowering. Nevertheless, this evolutionary progression of leadership was not entirely adequate to meet the challenges of the global knowledge-based environment of contemporary organizations. Consequently, self-leadership has emerged. Self-leadership theory can be described as the 'process of influencing oneself' as opposed to the influence of leaders over followers. Self-leadership can lead to enhanced individual and organizational performance. Individuals who received the thought self-leadership training experienced increased mental performance, positive enthusiasm, job satisfaction, self-efficacy. The purposes of this paper include: (1) to understand the concept development of self-leadership; (2) to understand the present situation of self-leadership; (3) to understand the future prospective of self-leadership.