The first thing to say about leadership is this: Leadership frequently gets mistaken for other things. “Too often, attempts to analyze leadership tend to fail because the would be analyst misconceives his task. He usually does not study leadership at all. Instead, he studies popularity, power, showmanship, or wisdom in long-range planning.”
So said the celebrated psychologist W.C.H. Prentice, writing for the Harvard Business Review. Prentice was right. To his list of mistaken definitions of leadership, I could add many more: organizational acumen, administrative expertise, and sheer hard work. All of these are important. But none addresses the subject of leadership.
Haggai, Dr. John E, The Influential Leader: 12 Steps to Igniting Visionary Decision Making, copyright 2009, Harvest House Publishers: Eugene, Oregon, page 7