The 21st century brings tremendous opportunities and challenges. The challenges include rapidly changing business environments, global unrest between nations, famine and disease and often civil war within countries. Despite the challenges, great opportunities exist including possibilities of technological breakthroughs, development of completely new businesses, or even the establishment of peaceful security for nations. Strong leadership is needed more than ever. Are people born leaders? Essentials of Leadership looks at leadership as a dynamic system. When people and organizations apply this system, they can identify and develop necessary skills for effective leadership. This book is a tool for organizations and leaders to perform self-assessment, and it identifies and develops future leaders. Essentials of Leadership demonstrates leadership development is vital to the success of organizations and must be systematically approached. To fail to this could put your organization at risk.