Do leaders follow orders?

Everyone follows orders. Even leaders do. Even if it means that they set the orders themselves as in what are they going to do next. An order is essentially a point of direction and you cannot be a leader if you do not know where you are going or where you want to end up at.

To be a succesfull leader, one must procede with their initial plans and follow orders that they make up along the way. If a leader were to have no orders at all, one would be a lesser of a leader or even not a leader at all, by the definition itself.