That's a tautology, like saying a chef is someone who cooks. But what Drucker is really getting at is that we have no magic dust that we can sprinkle on someone's food to produce a leader by next morning. There are no lessons you can mail away for, or download from the Internet. This is because there are as many kinds of leadership as there are leaders. Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and Mother Teresa were as assuredly leaders as are Jack Welch of General Electric and Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's.
Leaders lead because they can and because they do.
Only what I believe are the attributes of a leader as I observe them, from my thirty-year perspective on the front lines. This list works for me, Jean Monty. Use at your own discretion. For me, leadership requires empathy, boundless energy, personal values, strong identity, and action. Empathy Let's take a closer look at my list, starting with empathy.