Have been reading John Adair's Effective Teambuilding book. Chapter 10 is particularly relevant as it talks about leadership and what it involves. 'One of the chief fruits of good leadership is a good team'. a very powerful statement i think. He goes on to discuss different styles of leadership and the outcomes of same. A good leader needs to know himself, his strengths and weaknesses. If you know yourself then your team can be complementary ie you will all have different strengths and weaknesses. this is of course a little different in schools as we often have no say as to who is on our team. I suppose the idea is to work within and with the differences and strengths that people have.