You need people around you in order to lead. You cannot define yourself as a leader if you are only directing yourself. You can lead your family, staff and peers, but you cannot lead only you. That’s on you!
Leadership is a lonely position where you regularly step into the unknown and ask others to join you. Then it is up to you to work with them to achieve a vision. Often people will want the title of a leader because they think it comes with some sort of privilege but what they miss almost every time is that the leader is usually the first one to always get blamed. They need to take a risk and then ask others to come along with them to see what happens.
One of the key topics that a leader must be aware of is that you work for the staff around you, they don’t work for you. You need to lead by example and cannot ask others to follow you if you are not willing to do the work yourself. You must gain the respect of everyone around you, if you think that people are going to trust in your judgement. Again, leadership can be very lonely, not get recognition and are usually the first person to blame.