Bones and muscles

Fortunately, despite all human flaws, many leaders kicked in. To some extent, it's possible to observe many beneficial traits and reason out some recurrent patterns.

As I see it, a leader is dominated by two main forces: a vast skill set and knowledge and what is called "effective attitude".
The first force is potentially within anybody's grasp.
The latter one is what I generally refer to as the trait without a name. You can't actually create it "from nil". Yet you can pull it out, shape it and ameliorate it (assuming there is something there :-)

In a previous comment I used the bones methaphor, it goes as follow: "being a leader is a matter of bones, if you got them you can put on muscles and coach them."

However, not being a leader is very very convenient...check out the upcoming post.