How many times have you seen a good manager or a good leader?
It is easy for us to see that not every manager is a leader,
that not everybody fits in the suit.
Early studies on leadership focused on the differences
between leaders and followers.
In this case, we were assuming that people in leading positions
would display more "leadership traits" than their subordinates.
However, what researchers found was surprising for them.
There are a few traits that can be used
in order to differentiate between a leader and a follower.
Sometimes, a leader has to highlight some traits,
but the differences between both of them are really small.
Lets do it the other way around.
We can think that a given trait is a characteristic of a strong leader.
Such as being determined or outgoing or maybe committed.
But many people have those traits and they never become leaders.
Therefore, there are other theories,
trying to say that leadership skills only arise
when an opportunity for leadership appears,
when there is a lack of leadership or under some kind of crisis.
Others, however, think that certain traits can be
more appropriate or effective in a given situation,
while being less effective in other situations.
We can find, that there are many opinions and points of view
when we speak of leadership as a trait of personality.
And we will review now some of the most important of them.