Do you believe that leadership is a trait which people are born with? Or is it a trait built and honed by them through their years of experience from school to the workforce?
This has always been a very contentious topic with one side of the fence believing in born leaders while the other side refuse to think that way and think that everyone has an equal chance of becoming a leader through their life experiences.
The article below believes that leaders are born and fine tune with their experience through the trials and tribulations they go through.
What I’ve learned by observing thousands of people in business over the past 30 years, though, is that – like most things – leadership capability falls along a bell curve. Some people are, indeed, born leaders. These folks at the top of the leadership bell curve start out very good, and tend to get even better as they go along. Then there are the folks at the bottom of the curve: that bottom 10-15% of people who, no matter how hard they try, simply aren’t ever going to be very good leaders. They just don’t have the innate wiring.
Well, my view is that leadership depends on a lot of factors which is not determined by your genes before your birth. Instead, i feel that your leadership ability depends largely on the conditions in which you were born into (eldest child/youngest child/only child etc, parents spoon feeding you etc)
How about your views?
