“Leadership” in such contexts is something almost wholly benign. It is seen as an exquisitely democratic activity, one in which the interests of leaders and the interests of followers mostly coincide, leaders are keenly sensitive to the needs and wants of followers, and decision-making is highly consensual. As such, it is a fundamentally apolitical concept, one that ignores central concerns of political leadership such as power and authority. It has succeeded in making leadership entirely respectable, not to say “politically correct,” but at the price of a loss of clarity about the problematic aspects of leadership in democratic as well as other societies.