generate personality dynamics advantageous to the person seeking the responsibilities of leadership. The conclusion that personality is a factor in leadership differentiation does not represent a return to the trait approach. at does represent a sensible modification of the extreme situationist point of view. The trait approach tended to treat personality variables in an atomistic fashion, suggesting that each trait acted singly to determine leadership effects The sitialionist approach, on the other hand, denied the influences of individual differences, attributing all variance between persons to fortuitous demands of the environment