Are Leaders Born or Made?

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This paper examines whether leadership skills are an innate talent that one is born with or whether they are something that one can develop with the right training. The paper contends that this important issue is at the heart of strategic leadership planning for most companies, large and small. Through the discussion in the paper, it becomes clear that innate abilities are key to successful leadership development.

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"Part of the difficulty in determining whether leaders are born or whether they are made lies in the numerous definitions being utilized to define the term "leadership." There are approximately three hundred and fifty definitions of the term "leadership" that have been utilized by researchers over the last three decades (Bennis & Nanus 21).
Kotter (124) defines leaders as individuals who create the course of action for a group of individuals. They also garner loyalty from these group members as they align themselves with the direction the leader has established. And then, lastly, the leader is charged with motivating group members to actually accomplish the goals the leader has set forth. Leadership encompasses these facets."

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