Leadership: Teaching Eagles?

Adrian Savage at Slow Leadership has some interesting thoughts on leadership and teaching eagles to run.

I'd add: One concept that has posed problems as been the tendency to think of leadership as a job and not a responsibility. If it is thought of as the latter, then everyone at various times will have to exercise leadership and we can get away from the caste system that labels some folks as leaders and others as followers and then builds a wall between them. The question is not whether or not a person is a leader - all of us at various times are expected to lead - but whether or not the person performs those leadership tasks well.