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I've noticed: competent people who aren't interested in leadership tend to make the best leaders.

As compared to people who want to be leaders, for the sake of being known as a 'leader', but have neither the competency nor accountability to be leaders.

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As long as they aren't so disinterested that they become absentee leaders. It's rare for huge successful projects you've heard of, but I think the typical project is more likely to have this problem, although maybe it's just incompetence too.

I've seen this sentiment repeated here and I completely disagree.

The best leaders are interested in being leaders for the betterment of their team/community, not for the clout. But people who are pushed to be leaders without being interested in that, they tend to suck and make life miserable for everyone else. Leadership is a skill, if you treat it differently, you will suck at it.

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