Here are some of the worst illusions foisted by and about leadership. Teams require a single individual to lead them . It isn't so.
Leadership can rotate by the clock, by the task at hand.
Strong leadership ensures success. It just isn't so. Strong leadership is useless if the people following the leader are incompetent or uninterested in the team task. How a leader is selected is not important. Leaders must be selected in a way that is consonant with the task a team is assigned, and the kind of team he or she is assigned to.