Do top leaders or presidents of countries or big corporations and businesses do better economically because they were brought up from a rich family background with wealthy parents or from a poor family background with poor parents?
Or better put, does the financial status of ones family background, that is, does one being born and brought up by rich or poor parents, have a lot to do with how well they do later in life when they attain leadership roles in big corporations and businesses or become the president of a country?
I don't think so. You have leaders from every kinds of backgrounds. Some come from wealthy families, some come from middle class ones and others come from poverty. There isn't a standard recipe for an individual to become a leader, because it depends on different factors and variables. You have to take the history of the person into consideration (which goes much beyond financial status), personality and external factors, such
as world, society, culture and zeitgeist.
A leader of present times may not be the leader of tomorrow, because each time has its own demands, trends and styles. As I see, what is common to leaders is the autenticity and the capacity of developing solutions and new ways to follow through, when everyone around seems lost and confused on what to do.