And, more importantly, what distinguishes effective leaders from ineffective ones.
Leadership is hard to explain and define, but it can be easily recognized in practice.
Leaders, such as Napoleon, Jefferson, and Washington were believed to be great men and this characteristic accounted for their successful leadership. However, it was found that it is difficult to teach people how to be great, so different theories have been developed through the years. This concerned the individual characteristics, or traits, of leaders as an attempt to explain leadership effectiveness. In this sense, leadership is viewed as a measurable and quantifiable property possessed in different amounts by different people. This theory resulted from the belief that leaders are born.