Leadership - defined by everyone

REALLY interesting leadership research conducted by Yankelovich in 2005, randomly interviewing over 1300 people about their views on leadership, the characteristics essential to leaders, and their confidence in today's leaders. (Study highlights on page three, important leadership traits page 11.) What I found interesting - 1) that interviewees saw themselves as part of the problem, for not being better informed, and 2) ethics and integrity topped the list of leadership characteristics. Interesting to take that list of leadership characteristics and hold the mirror up (toward me? toward my organization's leaders?), and see what shows up....