Only the people who work for another person have the authority to call that person a leader. Too many people equate leaders with the power of authority, yet it is more about visioning and achieving goals through others. Organizations that are lagging behind their competitors often have a lack of leaders throughout their ranks. While great organizations have leaders throughout the organization, from top to bottom. Just as I mentioned earlier about Starbucks goal of 2000 stores by the year 2000, it took a lot of leaders throughout the ranks to accomplish it.
Leadership is like many other difficult skills it takes skills and practice.
Senior leaders should always be coaching and mentoring their subordinates on the leadership continuum. Give your employees more than a brief introduction assign some training to your most experienced and talented managers. One role model can influence 40 or 50 new hires. Also, focus on values after the training, i.e. Marriott prominently displays customer letters praising superior performance. Do NOT write the followers off or give them superficial attention.