Despite billions of `leaders’ in every walk of life, millions of companies across the world with very effective leaders and almost the same number of seminal and influential articles and books on leadership, [1] we still struggle to define and understand leadership. Broadly, we understand what it is – it is about leading people, but complexities arise when we begin to reflect on the characteristics of a good leader, whether different situations require different types of leadership attributes, and whether there are some types of leadership attributes that are better or more effective than others