1. People are in groups for purposes. Example: A soccer team is a group for the purpose of playing soccer. 2. Leadership is contextual to the purpose of a grou

1. People are in groups for purposes. Example: A soccer team is a group for the purpose of playing soccer. 2. Leadership is contextual to the purpose of a group. A great soccer player is likely to be a leader on a soccer team, but if she is a bad musician, she won't be a leader in a band, no matter how charismatic or likeable she is. 3. Popularity is leadership without authority. 4. Lacking an external evaluation function, a group implicitly invents one. This implies that nerds would actually be popular in groups with an evaluation function for smartness. The solution is to create critical masses of people brought together in the context of a need to be smart.