Opinion about true leadership

     My school KMLA have many philosophy of foundation including real education, patriotism, and leadership. The school emphasizes leadership in diverse area such as student union, group assignments, and club activities. Any extracurricular work requires distribution of work and responsibility of every members. Leaders regulate the pace and completeness of the work. However, recently I questioned about true leadership because it felted like a mere burden. It felted as a puppet of imprisonment. The word 'leadership' didn't have any meaning but gave more responsibility and more work. 

     According to wikipedia, leadership is defined as a  process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support the others in the accomplishment of a common task". Leaders extracts the best of their teammates and stimulates for the best performance. In majority of modern medias, leadership is beautified as a features that all successful, respected celebrities have. Most CEOs or politicians have outstanding leadership that could create their high status. Furthermore, most universities include leadership as a merit in interview and try to evaluate student's morality or personality with this tool. However, leadership is excessively emphasized and glamorized. In reality, I never saw a true leadership but only saw leadership that is completely responsible or that is criticized from other members such as politicians blamed and cursed. 

      It is hard for leadership to be conducted in the reality because in any work, there are people who are absent for their works. To gain full participation, repeating and nagging is need. On the other hand, in an excessively participating society (very minor), it is hard to make a unified voice since the members do not afraid to censor or bend their ideas. For instance, KMLA student union is relatively very active compared to other school. It is because other school society have light attitude toward student union and the participation is really low. However, in KMLA, there are many new ideas that students desire . Most of the proposals are created by fixed members or seniors. Student union work as a messenger to the teachers. The student union had many good results but yet not fully independent nor pulls the best out of different students.

     Furthermore, people face difficulty with leadership because the name 'leadership' itself have power to imprison one person with all the works and responsibility. In majority of companies or political parties, when something gets wrong, representatives of each relevant departments announce resignation to take all the burdens. In this context, leadership is like an insurance that designates a victim that might give up the social status with potential dangers.
      Are leaders just a symbol, or a status that only feel responsibility or includes all previous things and additionally stimulating the team for better work? In reality the latter is difficult to conduct and maintain.