What Does A True Leader Look Like?

"He who thinks he leads," said Benjamin Hooks, "and has no one following him is only taking a walk."  No great cause can survive apart from leadership--in government, in industry, in business, in the church.  One of the problems of leadership is that it is often difficult for the leader to distinguish between leading a cause and being the cause.  In reality, a leader is committed to a cause, but he does not become the cause.  Sometimes a leader pours himself into the cause he represents so much--body, soul, and spirit--that his judgment and perspective become warped.  The individual begins to think that he is the cause.