Having a “title” doesn’t immediately give you a skill. Being titled an “engineer” doesn’t make you an engineer. Being an engineer requires actually thinking and practicing engineering.
Being a CEO, manager, or having some other “high-ranking” title doesn’t immediately equate you to being a leader. We consider such people to be a leader, but it happens more often than not that they are not actual leaders…
Stop abusing the “L-word”… I’ve taken to reading what happens over a Leadership Turn and enjoy the little tid-bits that pop-up. The conversation on what is a leader, who the “average” person thinks is a leader, who we culturally percieve as a leader, etc. is on-going and changes slightly depending on who exactly is posting for the day.
What is a leader if not someone who is titled with a “powerful” position?
Difficult question to answer and not one I’m going to explore at the moment outside of the few sentences above. Leading is done by working…maybe.