This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria with a special edition, How to Lead.

What does it mean to lead? The question has always been a fascinating one of interest to people in business, politics, academia really everywhere.

It's perhaps taken on a fresh relevance because we have in the White House today a man with a very distinctive style of leadership.

President Trump is a leader, just ask the millions who follow him unquestionably.

To many others though, he is impulsive, disruptive and dangerous.

Trump believes he has been successful by his own measure.

Nobody has done the job that we've done. Nobody has done more for Israel.

Nobody has done more for the military than I have.

Next November, Americans will choose to entrust Mr. Trump with four more years in office or to elect a new leader.

As the candidates battle for the biggest job in the world, it's a good time to consider what makes a great leader.

I ask this question more broadly than in reference to Donald Trump, of course, and ranging far more widely than the realm of politics.

Can strong leadership skills in the battlefield translate to the boardroom?

Are there certain personality traits shared by history's greatest leaders?

Does leadership always come from the top down?

In this hour I'll talk with civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis about leading through consensus during difficult,

sometimes violent circumstances.

You have to be brave, you have to be bold, you have to be courageous and just go for it.

I ask Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kohn's Goodwin about the character traits that make precedence great.

I think the human qualities that make a person leader the ability to grow, to learn from their mistakes,

all of those qualities I think are leadership qualities that you can see in a community as well as in the presidency of the United States.

Bill Gates tells me about turning a passion into a mega profitable global business.

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