Although a number of traits and characteristics are relevant to leadership, two limitations have caused leadership research to move in a different direction...

What will be an ideal response?

First, many of the trait-leadership correlations are weak in magnitude, particularly when leader effectiveness serves as the outcome.

Second, the focus on leader traits holds less practical relevance than a focus on leader actions. Although research shows that traits can seemingly have an effect on leader effectiveness, these effects are generally explained much more strongly by leader behavior.