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I believe there are six building blocks for the development of leaders anywhere. 1) the person (gender, birth order, personality etc) 2) the leader (style, approach, skills etc) 3) the context (for decision making, interaction, culture etc) 4) the emerging leader (the people who believe they are better than the leader, and knowing how to handle them) 5) the followers (teams, professional groups, etc) and 6) the judges (patients, staff, relatives, other managers, media, politicians, family and on and on). This array of ingredients for the leadership cake need mixing effectively and exposed in the oven of experience for varying periods of time. A lot of this can be taught by role models, some by programmes, but almost all the building blocks rely on adaptive leadership behaviours to respond effectively to each influence, which requires a combination of role model, exposure and acquisition of skills and knowledge.
Derek Mowbray, from Linkedin