It’s a debate like the controversy about the chicken and the egg. This is the most often asked question about leaders. The question of whether people who become leaders in life are born with natural leadership traits or that they were made or transformed into leaders by other factors in the leadership world.

In 2004, the Wall Street Journal’s online edition, citing the need for leadership qualities in business (superior communicators and relationship builders), asked its readers if business schools should “put more focus on communications and interpersonal training within their programs, or should the programs require a greater degree of proficiency in these skills in the students they admit?” Inevitably, the discussion revolved around the question of whether communication and relationship skills are inherent or learned.

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