From what I've learned about leadership, you spend more time managing other people's work than doing work yourself.

It seems to be more about teaching, mentoring and coaching than anything else.

This means if you don't really like human interactions and prefer to do technical work, leadership may not be right for you. Become a technical specialist instead.

Leadership is human. There's a lot of adaptation, politics, reading body language, and deciphering of passive aggressive people. It's not efficient or fast. And so, it's not for everyone.