The authors assume that everyone is a leader because everyone has influence. Leaders are not just born. Rather, leadership is a series of skills and qualities that are studied, taught, and practiced. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People . Covey believes that leaders with character are most effective.
Effective leaders are proactive, goal oriented, and focus their time on what is important.
Leaders are shown how to develop principles for guiding personal and professional growth. Leadership as an Art. DePree challenges the notion that leadership is a science of a discipline to be practiced. Leadership is more of an art meant to be felt, experienced, created. He emphasizes trust, grace, spirit, and love as concerns at the heart of any organization.