Leadership in Group Work

standing of leadership has been to describe and identify leadership in terms of the personal traits of the leader. This approach seems to imply that leadership is some kind of rare gift possessed by a small group of people and that this small group of people is able to control a larger group who is not gifted. Biographical and historical studies of famous people frequently attempt to discover traits that distinguish leaders from nonleaders. Analyses of this kind come up with numerous lists of traits which have