Are  the leaders born or made ?
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Sometimes, leaders are born. Most often though, leaders are made, through various ways. Sometimes, leaders are made because of a death, sometimes by other circumstances out of their control.
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We are true friends and we are born leaders.
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I'd like to say some people are just born leaders, but environment can't be denied.  You wonder why there are so many children of politicians/leaders who become leaders also.  Or why children of successful people, e.g. doctors, lawyers, etc., are also successful.  I believe people should be taught, or need to learn, the importance of education, of service, of law.   It's not necessarily the subject they learn, but the process of learning.  If you learn the skills of learning, or the skills and importance of service, you will generally seek greater/more learning and will seek to make a different in your community.
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Authority is granted, while leadership develops." \nLeadership is not a title. It isn’t having a louder voice or a more convincing style. Leadership comes from having a set of attributes that makes people want to work toward the goals you communicate and to follow the pace you set. I will describe this set of leadership attributes, as I see them, in the article below.\n\nFirst, let me tell you a story. I was bird hunting in the south not too long ago with a guide and his mule wagon. On one particular day, we wanted to take a shortcut, but the mules weren’t cooperating. The problem was, he was asking the mules to take a different path than they were used to following on a routine basis. After trying to encourage the two mules, my guide eventually hopped down from the wagon, talked to the mules eye-to-eye, then lead them on foot. They followed. The lesson I learned from that experience is that a good leader will recognize when he needs to hop down from the wagon and lead the way, particularly in a time of change from what is routine.\n\nSo what are these attributes that leaders have in common? Let me share my opinion. \n\nSELF-IMPROVEMENT\nI don't believe anyone can be an effective leader unless they are always working to improve themselves. People change, systems change, competitors, processes and economics change. Leaders who never change their habits and who fail to adapt will quickly become irrelevant. In addition, there is something endearing about a boss or a company CEO who is seen with a book under his or her arm. “If my leader is always striving for more, perhaps there is hope that I can grow, too.”\nI have a definition of leadership that I share with others in my company: Leaders have the ability to consistently capture, hold, and focus people’s attention on the mission — and their individual part in achieving it. At first glance, it is a simple definition. Only by breaking apart the sentence and further explaining the significance of each word can I truly express my philosophy of great leadership. \n\nCONSISTENCY\nConsistency is crucial. It means that day-in and day-out, the people you lead know you will get down off the wagon when necessary. Or put another way “you will walk the talk” Consistency means you completely understand that leadership is not a part-time job. Every action you take, decision you make, and criticism or praise you utter is observed and internalized. Leaders who are inconsistent in their behaviors have a hard time getting people to follow. Your people count on you to see the glass half full, with a plan in place to fill it the rest of the way.\n\nCAPTURE ATTENTION\nMost leaders are exceptional at capturing the attention of their people. That is to say, they are "captivating." What makes them so? They have a tremendous amount of positive energy, enthusiasm, and confidence. They have passion. Some have a sense of humor. Others are adventurous. While personal styles are different, the end result is people want to listen to what a good leader has to say. I have always thought that a leader could personify a captivating personality simply by following The Scout Law; scouts promise to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.\n\nHOLD ATTENTION\nTo be a good leader, you first must be a good follower. Those who aren’t interested in what others have to say are seen as narcissistic. The only way people will give you their continued attention is if they feel you have empathy for their lot in life, and are open-minded in how you view problems, opinions, and opportunities. Most importantly, people want feedback on how they are performing and how they can improve. I like to say that “feedback is the breakfast of champions”. Believe in people. Build them up. Never destroy them. Become a practitioner of public praise and private coaching. Do you celebrate victories with your people, no matter how sm
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often these leaders are actually dictators who use fear and threat of violence to sustain their power over long periods of time. since the people of these countries are often poor, uneducated, etc. they have little means to fight back.
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Whose presidency?\n\nI dunno.  I guess the common theme would be that they were elected... and they handled it by showing up for work on the first day.
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Um... were you "created"?
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No people, regardless of skin coloration, skull index or brain volume, were "made" from apes.\n\nThere is irrefutable evidence that humans and apes had common ancestors, evidence not in the shape of bones of a missing link but in the shape of shared genetic and developmental (in the formation of the embryo) characteristics. There is as irrefutable evidence that none of the modern apes that inhabit our planet today are ancestors of the modern humans.\n\n"White people" are descended from black people who bred from a limited gene pool in an environment where little sun light and cold climate favoured people whose skin had a high ultraviolet uptake and longer noses. In times of malnutrition, this slight advantage in access to Vitamin D may have been the difference between a healthy individual and a sickly individual to choose between for mating.\n\nLeaving aside the question whether evolution is based on random events, planned divergences by an active creator or morphic resonance, fact is that selective breeding is an accepted method to emphasize traits in a race. Among humans, who changed independent wolves into trustful dogs (not without cooperation from the first wolves-turning-into-dogs) and fierce aurochs into rather tame milk cows the idea of breeding themselves is ancient, too. Blood relation to successful leaders were selected as leaders just by this virtue, maybe because for some time the successful leaders did produce able offspring. Less able offspring then managed to insist on that tradition, and the concept of inheritable nobility was born.
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leaders,  fall often, they fall becasue they get lazy in thier personal lives. yes i know some who fell. you also need to work on your english spelling.
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In India mostly they become leaders by birth. (By becoming a son or daughter to a politician.)
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Someone who can rise to meet the needs of leadership. Someone who has confidence in themselves and what they believe, and who can take flack about thier middle initial.\n    Someone who can make a plan and execute it in tough circumstances. But a leader who is humble and is not afraid to get down and dirty with the least of his leadees.
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Does it really matter?  Nobody on that team knows how to lead and if they did who would they lead...a bunch of nobodies?
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It's just a personal drive to succeed.  There is no clear motivation or ambition that defines a leader, it is the overall person.  The fact that the person is working outside of their comfort zone shows forward thinking and the ability to lead.  It's hard to step forward and do something that we are not comfortable with.  Most people are followers.  It takes a special breed of person to be a leader.
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both - sometimes the ability to lead is a ingrained trait - and sometimes it is learned.  The best leaders, IMHO, are born that way\n\nAnd just because you are a "leader" doesn't make you a particularly good one.  Sometimes leaders are made that way because they happen to be in the right place at the right time.
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Italians say " Masters ..we born ! "\nSo any person born for a role in life , and he should exept it .
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pretty sure that has something to do with the nature of political leaders. do they ever follow the wishes of the people, in any country?
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Yes, there are and, historically, there have been.  Ghandi is a good example as is Nelson Mandela.  While they weren't kings, they were important leaders.  Farther back, one can find monarchs who appear to have cared.  Sadly, we cannot really gauge that caring by our standards of behavior as time change.\n\nRight now, I would be hard pressed to find any leader who cares as much as they claim to.  Three examples of men who came into power on a foundation of caring about their country and people are obvious.  Hitler said he would free Germany of financial oppression and look what happened when he, instead, implemented his own plan of power.   Castro was able to gain power based on a promise of freeing Cuba of the influence of Batista and US corporations and politics.  He has since isolated Cuba in a way many find undesirable.  The third example is currently open to debate.  GW Bush claims to care about his country and people and, while we can say he is protecting the USA (ostensibly), he has eroded the individual freedoms which many claim a truly loyal-to-his-constituency would never do.