Leadership is a complex, multi-faceted capability, with myriad nuances and subtleties. The characteristics that can help a person succeed in one situation may lead to his failure in another.

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A leader should have a clear vision. To achieve his goals, he should communicate with every member in his organisation and align the entire organisation towards his vision. Communication is a crucial aspect of leadership and the leader plays a key role in creating optimism, hope, and direction. The creativity of an organisation is the result of the ripple effect of the leader's enthusiasm. It is leaders who inspire people to accomplish goals.

Organisational endeavours succeed or fail depending on the people involved. The leader has to ensure that the team that will execute his organisational vision has the right mix of talent.

The leader should strive to create an organisational culture that encourages each employee to innovate and excel at his or her workplace. To make this happen, the leader needs to set up a knowledge-acquisition process that will encourage contribution employees to contribute innovative ideas. Another prerequisite for the emergence of an aggressively innovative organisational culture would be a rewards-based system.

Systems that encourage blind obedience to established practices seldom create leaders. Only management cultures that encourage individuals to criticise outmoded norms can produce people with the qualities that make leaders.

Lastly, processes and systems that identify and nurture potential leaders at all levels go a long way in ensuring that an organisation retains the innovative edge so necessary for survival in a harshly competitive environment.