Leadership Attributes

Are leaders born or made that is the question, however before I can determine this I must first describe the attributes/skills that a leader requires. The issue with attributes and skills is that an attribute is an inherent ability; a skill is an ability that is acquired. Leadership and ethics seems like such a broad topic to take on in a paper. Indeed what makes a great leader, what are the qualities/skills which are essential for leadership and which of those can be identified as essential or merely beneficial for low maintenance management. When managing what style of leadership can be identified as good bad or indeed negative and the potential effects of that management style. The author hopes to address the issue of whether leadership can be learned or is merely a natural attribute. Additionally the characteristics required to make a leader. (Maxwell, 2005).

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