Authentic Leadership

How does someone embody leadership? Authentic leaders are leaders. They don't just act like leaders. The don't just talk about leadership.

In his book, The Anatomy of Change, Richard Strozzi Heckler describes how he learned about the relationship between authentic identity and physical presence:

There is a real and important difference between what people say they can do and what they actually do. With this understanding, I took as my teachers those who could embody what they said. I began to learn how to distinguish between those who knew things and could say them, and those who could do those things and be them. I watch how people moved, how they corrected for their mistakes, how they responded in pressure situations.

What about you? Do you act like a leader by doing leadership stuff? Or are you a leader?