I'm sure that the thing we can all be agreed on is that not each
person can be a leader,and it depends on what kind of leader you want
to be and where to be positioned. For example; you can be a leader of a
football team, you can be a leader of company, of syndicate, of
protesting mass, a leader of religious community, a leader of political
party, a leader of ***...So, as we can conclude, what kind of leader
you want to be depends on what kind of job/activity you pursue. There
are few features that determine some person as an potential leader, I'm
not able to rank them on their importance, since I think all those
features are equally relevant and important.
-experience,
knowledge, skills ( also posessing skills depends on job or activity
you're in - football leader/capitain must be good in passing the ball,
in organising a game, shooting and kicking ball towards goal, a leader
of political party must know how to activate his members, colleagues,
he must know how to inspire huge mass of people, to think about
political goals and how to gather as much followers as he can..etc...),
straight reasoning, innovation, intelligence, good comunicational
skills - doesn't always be related to each kind of leadership. I'm sure
there are plenty of other features which have to be fulfilled -
depending on type of activity, job...
Sincere leader must posess
certain qualities related to the description of a job he works on. You
can't rule political party if you are musician and have no real
education about political sciences and enough knowledge and experience
in ruling people arround you. All in all, leader must be complete
personality, and somebudy who has confidence of people arround him, who
has been chosen from group of people or someone who's been chosen from
a person who's got a kind of higher importance, or authority.
Further
more, leader must always be ready for crytics, and must be flexibile
and willing to accept other people's, colleagues's, teammate's opinions
and always be ready to listen others. Leader must be democratic and
versatile, moral and honest - he must be compatible.
This would be summary of my thoughts concerning leadership and leader.