"Leadership is a 'glow' word on many lips. Politicians pretend it. Youth question it. The old yearn for it. Parents grasp for it. Children defy it. Police seek it. Armies impose it. Terrorists seize it. Executives claim it. Corporations exploit it. Scholars study it. Pundits pretend it. Sound bites impose it. Media announce it. Sycophants worship it. Religions bless it. Psychologists psych it. Autocrats manipulate it. Experts teach it. Conservatives defend it. Liberals suspect it. Ethicists critique it. Philosophers debate it. Theologians integrate it.

Those who love it, one suspects, should rarely be granted it; those who usurp it not allowed it; those who feel entitled to it not be trusted with it; only those who accept it as a trust- a service delegated by community and for community-deserve to serve in it."

David Augsburger, "Three Tasks of Leadership"