In essence they all tell the same story. Leadership is a hero's journey, Campbell says. The journey is open to all but not all accept. Those who do accept cross a threshold into an unknown land where no one has ventured before. There are many obstacles along the way and great danger.
Many temptations exist.
But for those who accept the journey, help is there. And after all the obstacles are overcome, and the dragon is slain, there is another threshold to cross. To be a leader, the hero must come back to his or her people to tell the story. He or she must teach the wisdom learned to those left behind. The journey is not into a physical wilderness, Campbell says, it's a journey into the depths of one's own being.