The truth is that the conditions for leadership, despite their abundance and the greatness of follow-up in all of them, do not include anything more necessary for a leader than the ability to test his strength and the strength of his opponent. Everything else is an arrangement of what he does with his power, and what he expects the power he is competing with to do, or it is an organization of the preparedness and caution between the two teams in the place where they meet...
Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad