By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam
The world is used to describing people as 'leaders.' Very few realise that it is not about being a leader but having the ability to exercise leadership. Being a leader is intuitively understood, but exercising leadership is not something that one can easily relate to. We are more prone to see people holding leadership positions as 'being leaders' rather than as 'exercising leadership.' What one fails to recognise is the fact that several of us have enormous opportunities to exercise leadership on a daily basis in the several roles that we play in life. We are also prone to think that the person whom we recognise as a leader must be invested with all the qualities that personify leadership.
