Leadership qualities depend on a person's contexts: their history, culture, religion, family, etc.

'leadership does not reside in a person but in an arena that can be occupied by offerings of specific wisdom to the needs of the community. so leadership is produced collectively in the community, not the individual... leadership for this era is not a role, or set of traits; it’s a zone of inter-relational process.'

~ nora bateson, ‘small arcs of... See more

In a process-oriented definition of leadership, social interactions take center stage (Uhl-Bien, 2006).

"We may learn more about leadership if we study it as an entrustment of context, and not as a twinkle bestowed upon a few select individuals from the heavens above."