Tom, thanks for the comment.  I think a number of leadership development professionals and schools of thought have asserted that leadership is about character (who you are) rather than behavior (how you act).  However much of the training I received over the years was packaged (or received by me) as how to behave.  At the same time, leaders in both political and business realms are respected less and less.  We continue to hear about the bad ones and little about the good ones.  Part of what I attribute to the Internet is opening up media so that character-based leaders can have greater exposure to the rest of the world.  We subconscously get the idea that leaders can be good people, and that we can, in fact, lead.  I hope growth in those two ideas continues.

Thanks again for the great comment.  Mike...