Leadership is a topic that has probably had more earnest academic stuff written about it than anything else, libraries would be denuded if all the material was suddenly removed.
Whilst it is dangerous to reduce complicated concepts to a list of bullet points, leadership is really all about behavior, and that can be listed as a series of do’s and don’ts.
This blog from Mike Michalowicz, and the links provided is as good a summary of the dead forests as I have seen.