Even so, one effect of the traditional heroic warrior approach to leadership has been to support the belief that leaders are born rather than made, and that nature is more important than nurture. The search for the essential traits of a leader dominated the field of leadership studies until the late 1940’s, and remains common in popular discourse today.
即使是这样，传统的认为领导人是英雄战士的观念的一个结果是，它支持了领导人是天生的而不是后天培养成的，并且天生的因素比后天的培养更重要的观点。在20世纪40年代之前，寻找领导人的特征在领导研究领域一直占主导地位，并且直到今天，在通俗演讲中仍然很常见。