The social nature of leadership.

From the obscure time of ancient Byzantium to our own day, the practice and theory of leadership have engaged man's interest. Treading his way in the Lyceum, Aristotle was persuaded that some men were endowed by nature with the capacity for leadership, and there are still people who hold with him that "from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule"(1). Almost two millennia later, Machiavelli, in his handbook for princes, encompassed courage, conviction, pride, and strength among the qualities of