Leadership Without Easy Answers

"... Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Madison, Hamilton, Monroe, Benjamin Franklin - is attributed not to a demographic fluke but to the extraordinary times in which these men lived.  Instead of asserting that all of them shared a common set of traits, situationalists suggest that the times called forth an assortment of men with various talents and leadership styles.  Indeed, many of them performed marvelously in some jobs but quite poorly in others."  (17)