The Six Essential Leadership Attributes

Overview: Leadership is the foundation for all organizations, whether corporate, nonprofit or government. Leadership is a high calling and responsibility, upon which all else the organization is or does rests. Moreover, leadership is always top down, never bottom up. We live in a time when cynicism and doubt, especially in regard to leaders and their motives are rampant in every area of culture, including not only corporate, but also government and nonprofit organizations. Would be leaders, to be effective and ultimately successful, must demonstrate to those they expect to lead, the personal integrity required to develop within themselves these six attributes. To live out these attributes, not perfectly, but humanly, including failing, admitting failure and learning from it. Thereby, leaders can instill within their followers the loyalty and commitment necessary for them to accept the high standards the leader sets, models and mentors; adopt the leader’s vision as their own and accept the inevitable hard decisions; for their leaders are out front, visible; providing hope for the future. Read the article to know about the attributes of leadership.

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Format: PDF | Size: 139KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 7