Perhaps both of you and the author are half-right? :) This is his statement: > People can demonstrate acts of leadership regardless of their title and can do

Perhaps both of you and the author are half-right? :) This is his statement: > People can demonstrate acts of leadership regardless of their title and can do so in many different ways, simply by taking action on something without the explicit expectation or request for it. A simple example of what he's saying would be a person driving a change. Some of us, developers, probably have been in a not-so-great situation (e.g.: build takes too long, culture of not writing unit-tests/automation-tests, etc) and occasionally there's this one passionate individual that starts a movement slowly but sure in order to change the situation to a better one. I think that's what he's saying. What you're saying is probably akin to someone lower in the rank starts telling everybody including his/her supervisor/leads how to do their job properly in order to fix the situation... :D