Both roles are important and badly needed. But without followers, there can be no leaders. An effective leader is not someone who is loved or admired. He or she is someone whose followers do the right things. Popularity is not leadership.
Leaders are highly visible.
They therefore set examples. Leadership is not rank, privileges, titles, or money. It is responsibility. This has to be something that both needs to be done and fits the leader's strengths and the way she or he is most effective. They were extremely tolerant of diversity in people and did not look for carbon copies of themselves.