What would you say are the best leadership characteristics?
Are they ones that you continue to hone and develop? Do they hold the keys to future successes in leadership?
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It’s about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others’ success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
I have been in the military and business world for forty years and often get asked what I believe are the most important leadership competencies. It takes time and practice to be a top line leader. You are not borne with leadership characteristics. And you are never done developing them.
My experience leads me to this list of the best leadership posts. They rank as the most significant to success as a leader in my perspective.
If you want to be a better leader, learn from these posts.
Shaping the Future: 25 Leadership Quotes for Personal Inspiration
Are you one with desires for shaping the future? I certainly am. I was raised to believe I could become whatever I bothered to learn. No single idea has served me better.
A great quote can provide personal inspiration and can be used to educate others. We like to open most of our blogs with an enlightening quotation that relates to the topic.
Below are my top 25 leadership quotes of all time and why I selected them. And how they are related to our ability to shape the future.
Fake Person: 10 Horrific Traits That Create This Leader Personality
Genuine bosses? I have had my share. In fact, in over 40 years of leadership experience, I’ve had way more genuine bosses than ones with leaders nongenuine personality. And lots of experience studying leadership traits scattered all over the map. I am always trying to spot leaders who have a fake person personality.
Leadership is learned behavior that becomes unconscious and automatic over time. It’s important to realize that just because someone holds a position of leadership, doesn’t necessarily mean they should.
Put another way; not all leaders are created equal. The problem many organizations are suffering from is a recognition problem – they can’t seem to recognize good leaders from bad ones.
In today’s article, I’ll address how to identify bad leaders by pointing out leaders nongenuine personality traits that represent bad leadership.
John Wooden Leadership Qualities: 14 He Used For Career Development
Do you follow college basketball? If you do, you will recognize the name of John Wooden, probably the most successful college coach of all time. For us, this achievement and learning are all about the John Wooden leadership qualities.
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Coach John Wooden is best known for his 27-year legacy at UCLA, where he led the Bruins to 10 NCAA national championships. This is a record that will most likely never be repeated.
We like to read about and study people who generate this type of success. There is so much that we can learn from them.
Leader or First Follower: Which Is Most Critical for Leadership?
We stumbled on a very interesting website recently while searching for a video that described the value of the first follower. In actuality, the video was seeking to answer the question of which was most critical to building a community, the leader or first follower. It was also dealing with walking out into the unknown.
The video was created by Derek Sivers and it was his him and his website that was so interesting.
If you are interested in leadership and making a movement, then let’s watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 3 minutes, and dissect some lessons,
Leadership Qualities: The Go-Getter’s Guide to Lifelong Learning
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want to be done because he wants to do it.
– Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower certainly understood the concepts of the best leadership qualities and attributes, didn’t he? Spot on. I have been in leadership positions in the military and business world for forty years, and I often get asked what it takes to be an effective, influential leader. Dwight Eisenhower was only of many I studied over those many years.
Being such a leader is a lifelong learning process. You are never done learning. Every great leader always looks for ways to improve their ability to improve their leadership qualities and attributes.
If you read ten books on leadership, you could easily build a checklist of 50 or more leadership qualities and attributes. But more is not necessarily better for the best checklist. This following leadership checklist represents my favorite 15 leadership attributes.
It represents those 15 leadership attributes that I would least like to be without.
