“Too many leadership scholars and executives are obsessed by a pointless question: Are leaders born, or are they made?  The answer is irrelevant.  The truth is, you do not know what you are born with until you try very hard to express it,” say Prof. Bottger and Dr. Barsoux in a recent Wall Street Journal piece on leadership.

The article is based on “three questions that executives should ask themselves to assess their own leadership potential: “How far do you want to go?”, “What are you willing to invest?”, and “How will you keep it up?”.

How would you respond to these questions?