I'm still investigating leadership today, and it's been a busy time.  It has a lot to do with vision, commitment, communication, some aptitude for humor, some capacity to admit error, ability to listen, and awareness of mortality.

It's simple, really.

"All that he would have to do," continued the worried bug, "is travel through miles of harrowing and hazardous countryside, into unknown valleys and uncharted forests, past yawning chasms and trackless wastes, until he reached Digitopolis (if, of course, he ever reahed there).  Then he would have to persuade the Mathemagician to agree to relase the little princesss -- and, of course, he'd never agree . . .

"From there it's a simple matter of entering the Mountains of Ignorance, full of perilous pitfalls and ominous overtones -- a land to which many venture but few return, and whose evil demons slither slowly from peak to pak in search of prey.  Then an effortless climb up a two-thousand-step circular stairway without railings in a high wind at night (for in those mountains it is always night) to the Castle in the Air."