In sport, when a sportsman achieves everything, his reputation and legacy on that sport assumes legendary proportion. Winning a golden grand slam in Tennis gives the player an aura of invincibility. Winning all the golf majors puts a golfer on the pedestal of immortality. Likewise, winning the world championship in chess in all formats gives that sportsman the license to call himself the best there is. In cricket, when captains win everything that is there in the sun, his path to greatness gets assured. In the case of MS Dhoni, his leadership in cricket has transformed Indian cricket in such a way that when fans look back at this era, it will truly be called 'The Golden Era'. The focus in this article is celebrating MS Dhoni, the leader who continues to excel with each passing day. In countless articles regarding the attributes of a successful leader, the common themes that arise most of the time are confidence, commitment, positive attitude, intuition, ability to inspire and creativity. If one looks at the playing tenure of Dhoni, one can observe that he slots comfortably in each of those factors. From his starting days as a player, Dhoni already had the confidence and positive attitude. In his knocks of 148 and 183 against Pakistan and Sri Lanka respectively, Dhoni gave aggression a whole new dimension. It was the confidence in his batting that gave indications of his future role as a leader. When Dhoni stepped up to the role of the Indian skipper, it was dark days for team India. They had been knocked out in the first round of the 2007 World Cup. Although they had won a Test series in England, the World Cup loss continued to hurt. To compound their woes, the T20 World Cup was just around the corner. This was a format that India did not even take seriously. Before the tournament started, India were not even given a chance. However, with the progress of each match, the world saw two factors in Dhoni's captaincy. The confidence and the positive attitude that he brought out among the players galvanized the side as they took the world by storm and reached the final. The