The Essence of Leadership Attributes: What Leaders Are, Know, Do

Three Categories of Leadership Attributes

What Leaders Are, Know, Do

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What Leaders Are

Character and personality, values, motives, abilities, traits, integrity, commitment, honesty, courage, imagination.

What Leaders Know

Competencies (knowing yourself and others, leadership theory, professional knowledge) and skills (people skills, leadership skills, professional skills)

What Leaders Do

Habits, behaviors, styles, creating and leading change, leading by example.

Leadership

Leaders vs. Others

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Change-Leadership Perpetuum Mobile

Leadership is about creating powerful human currents moving enthusiastically and creatively in the right direction.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

A leader envisions the future and inspires people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible.

It is the Change-Leadership Perpetuum Mobile: CHANGE creates leaders, LEADERS create change...

Leadership Excellence
A-to-Z/360

The three parts on Leadership Excellence A-to-Z/360 are:

① Leadership Attributes: what leaders Are, Know, and Do;

② Leading change A-to-Z – from vision to reality;

③ Leading 360 all involved

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Leadership Excellence A-Z/360

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Three Categories of Leadership Attributes

What leaders ARE

A Leader should show humanity, a basic empathy with people. Rejoice with others when any good befalls them, and sympathize when ills overtake them, as they can us all.

Xenophon

Not the cry but the flight of the wild duck
leads the flock to fly and to follow.

Chinese

proverb

An army of sheep led by a lion
is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

Alexander
the Great

Without the vision of a goal a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Genghis
Khan

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

Jack Ma

AliBaba

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Steve Jobs

Apple

Characteristics of a Leader

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

What Leaders Know

Authority flows to the one who knows: a leader must be technically and professionally competent in his field.

Xenophon

If you strop → learning,
you stop creating history and become history.

Vadim Kotelnikov

Leading a big company means

never allowing a company to take itself too seriously. >>>

Jack Welch

Traits and Habits of Leader ● What Leaders and Managers Do

What leaders DO

Above all, a leader is there – at the right time and place. Never underestimate the positive influence that your very presence can exert in a situation.

Xenophon

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Management works in the system;
Leadership works on the system.

Stephen
Covey

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

Steve Jobs

Apple

Leaders are those who empower others.

Bill Gates

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. >>>

Max
De Pree

A leader is best is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

How to use this information

① "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." ~ Bruce Lee

② Sleep on this information – your powerful superconscious mind will tell you how to use it when you wake up

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