Few things pose a greater obstacle to leadership development than certain unsubstantiated and self-limiting beliefs about leadership. detail, begin examining leadership and leadership development in more we will consider what they are not We will examine several beliefs(we call them myths) that stand in the way of fully understanding and developing leadership. Myth: Good Leadership Is All Common Sense At face value, this myth says one needs only common sense to be a good ship reported however, that most of what anyone in scholarly and books only confirm with common sense already knows. The problem, of course, is with the ambiguous term common sense lt implies a common body of practical knowledge about life that virtually any reasonable person with moderate experience has acquired Asimple experiment, however, may convince you that common sense may be less