I have always had a struggle with the idea and the word leader. The literal meaning of the term is unambiguous: it is a spa tial description of one person leading and other people following.
Although the origin of the idea is lost to earliest human history, it seems likely that leader and
follower had a military origin. In conflicts between neighboring tribes, the biggest, bravest,
meanest individual would have been the leader who would issue the command: follow me. The image of military leader shifted as wars be came bigger and more technological. The military leader today is seldom on the battlefield, a fact that makes the very idea suspicious