What makes someone a leader, unfortunately, is a pathological problem. Great leaders look at a complicated world and they see the one answer, so they can galvanise people behind the one mission. It's not because leaders are smarter, it's often because they are just simple-minded - they can see the world in a simple way. It is not something one should necessarily strive for. It's probably a mental defect at some level. You have to deeply believe you are right, even when all the evidence suggests otherwise.
In any case, leaders mostly take credit for things that were going to happen anyway. It's been like that throughout time. I think people are getting more sophisticated at figuring out that most leaders are just con artists. I'm not sure it's a healthy thing that we go back to trusting our leaders because there's an inherent conflict of interest since they're mostly there for their own benefit. I'm a combination of Dilbert and Dogbert. In the dark part of my mind, I'm more like Dogbert. But I fear retribution if I were to do something outwardly evil. I'm a bit nerdish and socially awkward, so outwardly I'm more a Dilbert. He doesn't lead the future, he rides it. If there's a big boom in nanotechnology or whatever, he's going to be there. If there's a trend, he'll be in the middle of it.
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