¹ The original review Personal factors associated with leadership: A survey of the literature appeared in the Journal of Psychology, 1948, 25, 35-71. It is excerpted by permission of The Journal Press, Provincetown, Massachusetts. This classic marked a turning point in the study of leadership. Prior to this work, the search for universal personal traits of leadership was emphasized. After it, situation-specific analyses took over and dominated the field. Much more emphasis was placed on the situation alone than was done in the publication. Both individual traits and situational assessments are important, as well as the interaction between them. That was Stogdill’s main thesis. It was not until the 1980s that the importance of personal factors was restored.