Passive leadership

Uncreative leaders
Leadership by management
Leadership by status

Nature

A passive view of history by leaders, e.g. the belief that history just happens rather than being created, leads to parochial models of the world, nationalistic methods of leadership and de-emphasized global priorities.

Claim

There is a tendency for the person in the most powerful position in an organization to spend all of his or her time serving on committees and signing letters.