Originally Posted by Iucounu
I don't personally feel that social skills, in any degree, qualify as giftedness in the way we usually discuss it here (intellectual giftedness, of the sort that entails increased academic potential). The website details some ways to develop leadership skills, perhaps by hiring the company for a fee. Are you involved with this website, out of curiosity? Your post seems an awful lot like spam.

No, I'm not involved in the website. It's just something I found that I thought is a good definition of leadership and wanted to give credit where it's due.

You're of course entitled to your opinion about leadership not being a form of giftedness, however, Hoagie's Gifted Page and numerous other well respected and researched sources would disagree with you. Leadership has been retained in the federal definition of giftedness, across major revisions, since its inclusion in the Marland Report (1972)

A couple of non commercial links to look over on the subject:

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/leadership_and_gifted.html

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/leadership.htm

http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Leadership_Youth/

Last edited by Old Dad; 09/14/12 06:53 AM.