Being a leader is not just about titles, it is about taking responsibility for making things happen. How one understands, builds leadership skills and applies them on a broader level depends on one's knowledge and confidence to expand beyond boundaries. To navigate today's knowledge economy, business leaders, male or female, increasingly need to pack their skill. New paradigm leaders will continue to set the standard for how to lead a business, sell a vision;  create a readiness to reinvent the rules and identify tactics for changing challenges into opportunities.