Leadership, claims management guru Warren Bennis, is something like beauty -- hard to define, but you know it when you see it. This book, long established as a management classic, is about the 'hows' of leadership- how people become leaders, how they lead, and how organizations encourage or stifle potential leaders. Leaders are made, not born. They are people who know what they want, why they want it and how to communicate what they want to others in order to gain their co-operation and support. Based on a series of interviews with a mix of dynamic leaders from many different fields including law, medicine and the cinema, On Becoming a Leader offers practical advice for those ready to make the transition from management to leadership.