Leaders are born or made?

leaders are born. because the take the example of say hitler. whether you like him or not he rose from nowhere to become the biggest political figure in the past century. do you say that those qualities possessed by hitler were taught to him or he acquired from anyone else, the answer would be a big no. those are inherent qualities. i accept that you can acquire some qualities from others but by doing so you can only improve slightly and not drastically. if leadership qualities are made then it means you can pick any person from a group, teach him about the necessary qualities to become a leader and make him a leader. sounds good na. but its not possible practically. so leaders are born not made. but born leaders can improve their leadership skills to become great leaders.

I think leaders are born. I honestly cannot imagine how anybody can make a leader. There are certain people who are dynamic from childhood itself. Such people are the future leaders. These are the brilliant people who have a good personality, those who give very good speech etc.. Everybody cannot be a leader. For a leader, it is very important to be very careful and cautious. The way he talks, the way he walks, the way he observes- everything is important. He has to be courageous and highly determined with a positive mental attitude. Neither a coward nor a negative minded-person is qualified to be a leader.

I think it's kind of a combination of the two. I mean some people are born with more intelligence than others. What they do with it depends on their surroundings and how they are raised and shaped. I mean we start to see pieces of a child's personality as early as infancy. Whether they will be out going or shy, but as they grow up their surroundings often start to form who they become. I mean take a kid who is outgoing the parents can reinforce it. Events in their life will often become a part of who they become. I mean if they grew up poor maybe they will want to beat poverty and become successful and it gives them more drive, or maybe it will take them the other way dependent on their personality. If someone was abused they can either become an abuser themselves or rise above it. While I believe we are born with distinct personalities I believe our surroundings can either reinforce it or destroy it. A person who is shy as a child can grow up to be outgoing as an adult because of surroundings and people. Just as I believe an outgoing child can be beat down and become shy. It's hard to put into words everything I have to say about this, but I did my best. I am not sure if this helps, but hopefully it does. Good luck!

Hello and welcome to mylot :). I think that neither and both. To become a leader, you just have to find someone who agrees with you enough or needs enough money to follow you. That really doesn't require much, since anyone can find someone like that around. If what you mean by leader is someone so charismatic that anyone would follow them, people like that doesn't exist. Someone could gather around them hundreds of followers by saying some things, but with each thing said, hundreds more will disagree and reject that person's leadership. On the other hand, someone can adapt enough to a situation faster than others, which would mean they would become a kind of leader as long as the situation remains. But this is temporary, which doesn't make the person a leader as much as a living example. In the end, most "leaders" are people with enough something that other people want, so they "follow" that person in hopes they can also get that thing, such as people with a lot of money or "blessed" cult leaders. But the most important part is that humans are naturally egoist, which means that they will follow anyone if they see benefits for themselves for doing it, since this can mean anything (or nothing depending on who is the person) leaders can be born, made, unmade and rejected quite easily.

I kinda think that it's both. There are some natural born leaders in this world like Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr and many, many others but there are also some who are elected into a leadership position that do very well. Some of those examples are school/class presidents or community leaders that rally for a cause or a specific group of people that find that it's their niche or that they really enjoy it. So although the person wasn't necessarily born to be a leader once placed in that position their really good at it.