I have the translation of that book. That section you talk of is translated as 'Command' and does cover command aspects.
Indeed command is not leadership just as neither are 'management'.
Just look up leadership definitions and see how the academics can screw things up.
Leadership is not a function of one's position but rather the intangible ability to induce others to voluntarily submit to leadership.
Watch kids in a playground - applies to all ages - there you will see at play the natural leaders doing what comes naturally.
'All Leadership is influence' - John C. Maxwell
Any bureaucracy (including the military) needs to be purged periodically... preferably in the style of Stalin.‘Sound leadership - like true love, to which I suspect it is closely related - is all powerful. It can overcome the seemingly impossible and its effect on both leader and led is profound and lasting’. - Sydney Jary MC 18 Platoon.
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