Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.