Phase 1 of the Personal Leadership Philosophy Paper presented the opinion and supporting information establishing that; leaders are products of opportunity, birth and environment, but of these; opportunity influences great leadership the most. Furthermore, it was discussed that assigned leadership is a cancer to corporate America and this point is illustrated in the following example. While employed at Deloitte and Touché Consulting Group (DNT) we engaged ARCO, a major oil and gas company, to develop and implement an email migration strategy that consisted of 1200 Arco users at their subsidiary company, Vaster Resources Inc. In the initial meeting we were introduced to a gentleman, we will call John Smith for the purposes of this paper, and it was explained to us that as part of ARCO culture, leadership opportunities were provided in a formal manner to allow everyone to lead a project. In this case; it was John Smiths turn in the rotation. Within a short time period after starting the project it became very evident that John did not possess the natural leadership abilities needed to manage a group of highly educated and experienced individuals. The project suffered cost overruns, timelines were in disarray, and the project was in a position to fail. We were forced to go to ARCO upper management and explain the situation and proposed a change in leadership to one of the DNT consultants who did posses the leadership abilities needed to make the project a success; this DNT individual happened to be me. I quickly revised timelines, reassigned some team members to different roles and brought the project under control. The result was a major success for ARCO and Deloitte and Touché Consulting Group because the project was completed early and under budget because of a change f ...