Leadership development is a challenge that many organizations face today. Leadership development starts by picking right candidates for the job and nurturing them with required skill sets.

Most leaders would agree that the critical function of leadership is the creation of leaders and not followers. No wonder that many of them put in a lot of organizational money and time into leadership development activities. Sadly, many of their efforts fail, because mostly they are run on the premise that leadership is a learnable behavior and anybody can learn it.

Agreed that leadership is a pattern of behavior and behavior can be learned, but what if some don't want to lead or misconceive that they already know everything that is a required to lead. So, those who initiate leadership development efforts have to ask the question—whether people can learn to be leaders? This by and large is dependent on whether they want to be leaders and have what is required to be leaders.

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