The sad paradox, however, is that for all the time, energy and money spent on training leaders, there is still only room for a tiny few to actually run things in most businesses. They are expected to follow orders. As if their lives depended on it. So it is in most businesses. Ultimately, we have yet to reconcile the fact that even in the world's most successful democracy, most businesses are still run like feudal estates.
Leadership is a great idea whose time, in most big companies, has yet to come.
People strategists see this issue of leadership in a slightly different way. Leaders would constantly experiment. Instead of accumulating power, they would give it away. Leadership would be passed around according to the needs of the situation. Real leaders do all three, in conscious choice.