Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

-- Edwin H. Friedman

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

-- Warren G. Bennis