Why church “leadership”?

Have we ruined pastors careers by setting forth a narrow definition of leadership?
Pastors/Preachers are keepers, communicators, and explainers of the Word.

In modern times, groups of people (churches, businesses, organizations, countries…) are seeing great dynamic leaders that really make an impact in their arena. Dynamic leaders can make people feel good about themselves and lead them from where they are to where they feel they need to be. Some can also be good teachers of the Word, good people, but some can also have poor ethics or moral gaps.

Our society has spent thirty plus years studying, analyzing, teaching, standardizing and promoting a definition of what a leader should be. Could this be the greatest hindrance to modern day preachers? Could we be setting an inappropriate bar height, or creating a “leader-as-a-thing” mentality, that we pressure pastors to be something they are not called to be?

By setting up one leader in a church, and expecting them to make us feel good about ourselves, has everyone stopped being self leaders?

Could a church have a model where the Pastor is not at the top of the organizational pyramid?