Are Arts Donors also Arts Leaders?

If a wealthy person writes a large check to a worthy cultural organization, does that constitute an act of leadership? It's an interesting question....

Yet an act, however generous, of individual philanthropy does not seem entirely in sync with, say, Shakespearean notions of leadership, which tend to turn more on the famous motivational speech by Henry V at Agincourt from the boss to the underlings ("That he which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart") or on the complex musings of Julius Caesar ("There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries"). Most business schools don't define leadership as writing a check; they turn out graduates trained in how to translate a vision into reality, say, or how to best influence others toward the reaching of a goal. You do not have to be rich to be a leader; indeed, many management experts and historians have argued it is an impediment.