“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others” – Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Chruchill (1874-1965).There is a formula that does so that someone becomes a great leader? Is this a characteristic that people are born with? Is this a trait that can be learned and developed over time? Or is it a function of desire, determination and courage? In the case of Sir Winston Churchill, the answer is all of this. Born to wealthy and prominent parents, his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a leader of the Conservative Party and his mother, Lady Jennie Jerome Churchill, was an American heiress. It has been documented that his parents had little time for him, as his mother was a busy wife and stewardess; while his father, a brilliant scholar, was cold and distant, finding Winston a disappointment. Winston was a chubby boy and did poorly in school. He spoke in a stammering manner and stammered. At the age of 12 he was the shortest boy in the lowest class at a private secondary boarding school, Harrow. After finishing at Harrow, he failed the entry test, three times, for the...