Hi, Kimunya - excellent post with three strong points about leadership.

You are definitely onto something important with your emphasis on understanding the expectations inherent in work.

I participated in a webinar earlier today where this was discussed from a team perspective.  The webinar leader noted the importance of understanding the expectations of the leader for the team, of the team for the leader, and of those outside the team for the team.

This multi-dimensional view of expectations was quite helpful and fits nicely with your post.

I also enjoyed your opening story ... you put quite an image in my mind of both the interviewee and yourself in that situation:)

John