19. Leaders select only experienced people.
No! Great leaders often will select talent for the next generation.
20. Leaders should focus on the weaknesses.
No! They should delegate to their weaknesses and work toward their strengths.
21. Leaders develop the people around them.
No! Many leaders are poor at developing the next generation of leaders.
22. Leadership attitudes do not matter.
No! They do matter. Attitude may be one of the greatest differentiators of leadership.
* 23. Leadership can be inherited.
No! It is true that a leader may choose a successor, but those he leads will decide whether the new leader is a leader. Leadership ability may be taught, but it is not passed on with a position. Added by Tom Cocklereece on 3/11/2013.
* 24. Evil leaders are poor leaders.
No, unfortunately! We may not like this one, but history is replete with leaders who perpetrated great evil, but to do so they had to have had well developed leadership abilities. Perhaps one of the most notorious examples of this is Adolf Hitler. Added by Tom Cocklereece on 3/11/2013.
Again, please offer additional misconceptions of leadership in the comment section for my consideration.
