Is Leadership Skill Real? Are Leaders Born or Made?

🎓 Is Leadership a Real Skill—or are leaders born?

In this episode of The Leadership Laboratory, we dive into one of the most compelling questions in leadership science:

👉 Is there such a thing as leadership skill and does it actually drives long-term success? Or are leaders just born special?

Based on the study by Christian Hopp & Gernot Pruschak (2020), we explore:

The link between high school leadership roles and lifetime earnings

What this research says about real-world leadership potential—and what it doesn’t

The implications for hiring, training, and promoting future leaders

🧠 Featuring hard data, psychological insights, and tactical takeaways.

📘 Source:
“Is there such a thing as leadership skill? A replication and extension of the relationship between high school leadership positions and later-life earnings” – The Leadership Quarterly (2020), Hopp & Pruschak.

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