Finding Community Leaders by Eileen Hennessy 2. Developing Community Leadership by Carole Bloom 3. Building an Educated Community by Terri Horvath 4. The success or failure of a community project often seems to hinge on the presence or absence of good leadership. In the business world it is often the CEO who plots a successful course for his or her company, creating a strong work environment while building capital.
Some communities lament the lack of leadership needed to get projects off the ground.
These are questions often asked by members of a community. And there are answers. American traditions and circumstances foster widespread leadership potential. Early research on human behavior was directed toward finding inherited traits that would distinguish between leaders and nonleaders. Most researchers today have concluded that inherited characteristics are not crucial to becoming a leader.