This article focuses on the social system and its relationship with nursing leadership. Nursing leadership principles according to Hersey, Blanchard, and Johnson (2011) require attitudinal and situational traits common to other ambitious disciplines in achieving organizational goals and objectives. Understanding King's social system and its application to nursing leadership is helpful to the success of the nursing profession. The social system according to King (1992) focuses on achieving organizational goals and objectives by applying organizational principles, authority, power, status and decision making. Solving nursing leadership issues related to change will require nursing leaders to be creative and innovative. Nursing is knowledge-based and emphasizes learning as an organization. Huber (2013) emphasized that organizations interested in change should embrace continuous learning and adaptation of system values. Peter-O'Grady and Malloch (2011) four structural components of change; empowerment, shared decision making, self-direction, and shared governance is the strategy adapted to implement nursing leadership change in this document. The adapted strategy is integrated with King's social theoretical concept; organization, authority, power, status and decision making to solve the leadership problem. Integrated strategies applied in combination or independently will help solve many of the problems associated with nursing leadership