The reading I've done on leadership only scratches the surface of what is available. It seems that everyone has a view on leadership and there are almost an infinite number of ways to go about "improving" your leadership skills. Some of them are even contradictory. One of the things that struck me in this reading is the difference between managing and leadership. This is something that was brought to my attention a couple of years ago. It seems to me that both sets of tasks (leadership and managing) have to be completed but they often take quite a different skill set, this does make it challenging. I also noticed that several of the articles I read emphasized leadership throughout the organization - not just at the top levels. I like this concept and would like to investigate it further. I was surprised with leadership ideas based on the ideas of new science (Margaret Wheatly is the author who seems to have looked at this). Its certainly a concept I had not thought of nor heard of before. Overall surveying the literature is a bit daunting. Its hard to know where to start or how to make a plan to improve your skills. I think that it might be necessary just to jump in and try some of the techniques and see what seems most relevant to the leadership situations that I face.