What makes a leader?

We come across people in leadership roles in most activities in life. Starting from the class monitor in school, to the general secretary of a college student body and to the boss in a workplace. More often than not I have been let down by most of the leaders I have encountered in my life. The reasons for a person not measuring up to my ideas of a leader have been diverse. I have felt that some leaders did not have the credentials for the job and some just didnt have the personal integrity to lead other men. The worst let downs in my experience has been from leaders who didnt have the courage to take charge. They were the ones who took credit for successes and passed the blame down in the event of failures. For insatnce I had a boss who took credit for every good thing that the tean came up with. But when there were failures someone else was always to take the blame for it. It would be educating to know what other people think of as failures in leadership. Im listening......