"You could be qualified to lead your group but you should probably learn more about leadership, planning, resource management, etc. Do a google search on a few of the skills I listed and any others you think would be necessary. It is always a good thing to learn something useful."

"I have always felt that in a Zpoc the "leader" would have the best management skills. That means being able to understand the needs of the group, how to distribute resources, decide where effort must be applied, ex tetera (sic). Knowledge both generalized and specialized of how to obtain and provide the essentials of living, the basic luxuries, improved energy, et cetera will be the trademarks of a good leader.

Leadership is not a position of power. It is a position of responsibility. To be a leader means being the person with whom the buck stops. Can you live with the potential death of any member of your team? Your decisions will very likely mean the difference between not only your own life or death, but also the life and death of each member of your team. When their bellies are empty, their eyes will be turned to their leader.

Leaders are interested in the details. They are not happy with even small things like not using spell check. A leader is not willing to get by on convenient usage of cliche. Anyone who lists examples of intended bravado as qualification is not likely a good candidate for leadership.
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"You can't know until your in a possition to test it out. Anyone can delude themselves into believing they would be a good leader. As Jesse said it takes more than a pile of facts, those facts may get in your way. Leadership isn't raw data, raw data is useless without knowing how to use the information and what factors would be arse rapingly stupid to consider because they would be impossible variables. You can do everything right, by the book and without errors and still loose. Life is more than a simple equation. Since you had to ask the answer is no, you wouldn't be.

Side note men like Paton knew how to use the men under him correctly, he did not know everything. He let the planners fill in the void. He was able to adavance at such an alarming rate durring ww2 because he ordered that two different sets of plans made BEFORE he was ordered to attack. When he got his orders, 2 words set his men in motion "play ball"."

"I think that there's no one clean-cut answer for what (or who) an ideal leader would be.

If I had to sum up what a good leader is in one word, I would say "versatile" or "flexible." Different situations require different approaches, different employees require different leadership styles from their management. The leadership approach that works for an Marine in combat probably isn't going to work well for a medical student in surgical training, and neither approach would be appropriate to lead a couple of day laborers. There is no best leader for every situation.

In my experience, a good leader leads by example. Confidence, experience, knowledge, planning, and attention to details are vital traits or characteristics required. A good leader invests their efforts in keeping those under their lead capable of doing their job by providing them what they need to do it to the best of their ability. A good leader knows his team well, and knows how to get and keep them motivated, and does it."

"3 different approaches to being a leader depending on circumstances one may be better than the other."