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Many professional development courses are available for building leadership skills and competencies. Courses differ substantially, but most presuppose that leadership can be taught or developed within a person. Based on your readings is this presupposition valid? On what you know of your peers and the leaders you consider great? Can anyone demonstrate leadership? Explain.

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This solution discusses the presuppositions of leadership and whether anyone is capable of demonstrating leadership.

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Principles of leadership can be taught but they must be applied for the development to mature and grow. An example of this is a student in high school is the captain of his baseball team. The student has never lead before and is in a new situation. ...

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