ABSTRACT
As social animals, we form groups for survival, childrearing, and to achieve common purposes and social order. As collectivities, we go to war and wage peace, build institutions and develop legal systems-and always leadership and leaders are vital to our efforts. As leadership scholar Michael Harvey has written, the power of leadership is “a mystery as modern as the nation-state and as ancient as the tribe” (Harvey 2006: 39). Thus the need for leaders-and its corollary, followers-is both historical and immutable.
