numerous gurus presenting themselves as purveyors of the "laws" or "secrets" of leadership

Towards the end of his life, the great organisational thinker Peter Drucker wryly observed that although he'd spent half a century speaking about the mysterious, seductive, much sought-after quality called "leadership", he wasn't sure there was much to be said about it at all. "The only thing you can say about a leader," he remarked, "is that a leader is somebody who has followers." This circularity hasn't stopped numerous gurus presenting themselves as purveyors of the "laws" or "secrets" of leadership