Problems with Leadership Programs

[Life Long Learning]

I also agree that you need to do more than eat last to be a good leader. It is difficult to get fired from the government, but the people who need to be fired usually don't advance. Otherwise, government agencies tend to be excellent at employee development and tend to promote from within. Also, pay raises are contingent upon satisfactory performance evaluations, so there is plenty incentive to improve.

I agree.  That was just one minor example.  Leading-by-example (LBE) is a leader trait, not a manager.  Leading combat patrols from the front when you do not have to is a leader trait not a manager.    Managers order other people to harm without self-sacrifice and risk for themselves.  Leaders lead from the front and have the same risk or more.  This I know first hand.

ChinaMart executives manage from ivory towers while NOT on food stamps and making 1188-times their common workers.  Real leadership
    http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/23/news/com...index.html

Both corporate and government managers are a mixed bag.  There are good and bad in both.  The systems often corrupt both in different ways.    

In the end Management is not Leadership.