This article provides comparisons of research work on leadership in personality psychology and considerses the factors that determine personal leadership, such as family, environment, etc. It also provides definitions of the main types of leaders and descriptions of their personal qualities.

In addition, the features of leadership qualities of prominent personalities are analyzed. The fact of the presence of leadership, given from birth or acquired, cannot be considered like a positive conclusion, because exactly the force, that will be discussed in this article, determines the true leader as the leader that underlines his actions