One of the great truisms seems to be the first stumbling block in leadership development. To teach leadership, you must define it. Sounds easy, but wait a minute. None of the textbook definitions that have served as the basis for so many programs will suffice today. That is the problem.
Radical changes require adequate authority.
A person must have an inner strength as well as influential position. If a revolution is not founded on such inner truth, the results are bad, and it has no success. For in the end, people will support only those undertakings which they feel instinctively to be just. In today's world, leaders take this advice to heart because leadership is all about influencing people who operate in an uncertain arena. In other words, it is all the soft stuff that is so important.