Effective responses to fire, flood, pestilence, famine etc etc require really, really good organisation. In the zero-accountability, pass the buck culture that affects so many western countries, this tends to get overlooked. Stuff doesn't just happen - people need to make it happen. Good leadership is authoritative and NOT authoritarian; it helps people bring their best game to the tasks in hand Nothing to do with fetlock-touching Uriah Heepism.