A good idea is giving hungry people fish. Leaders hold leading ideas, not just good ideas. Leadership Responsibility Good leadership prepares itself well. In the children's story of the Three Little Pigs, the first two pigs were defeated because they had not studied the wolf. The first two pigs had not prepared themselves well.
Good leadership prepares itself well.
Holding office or some appointed position does not make you a leader. Only holding solutions and knowledge make one a leader. Good leadership does not attempt to speak for those they are leading, rather their goal is to get people organized so that they can speak for themselves. Speaking for oneself is the first act of personal empowerment, whether by voice or any other means of communication. When leaders prevent their followship from acting out of their own concerns, the followers become spectators and the leadership becomes mis-leadership.