Understanding the way context interplays with human agency is impetrative in the study of leadership. Structure is a direct correlation with context in relation to agency being directly correlated with characters. Context is not black and white it can be many things. I define context as the situational factors (environment) in which an idea, story, or event takes place that gives a deeper understanding as to why the idea, story, or event happened. It’s like the set up or the background. Agency, or characters, are like the key players with in a context. Agency is seen as the “who” that reacts to the “what”, being context, to create a reaction. In Burns, The Anatomy of Motivation, he discusses sheer wants in relation to real needs. Burns states
