“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things”
-Peter Drucker
What exactly makes you a good leader? Do you believe if someone speaks the old age adage that Leaders are born and not made? Why are some many articles published on Leadership? Why so many books? Why so many courses offered?
Is the topic Leadership that complicated? Who can be a Leader? Who can’t?
Today I would like to reflect on this topic called Leadership. True leadership is a result of experience, emotion, and evolution. Leadership comes from mistakes, comes from the emotions you lived through, life’s you left, and the strategies that have failed. Though it’s been a tough journey to comprehend the article, here are the top qualities you should possess in order to be a successful leader.
1. Take the lead
Good leaders lead from the front, not from the back. Never command people to do something, make a lead, and then let the people follow you. Don’t be the hound, who barks orders at people and assign everything. Hire charge, roll up your arms, stick your hands dirty, and finish off THE MISSION. It helps you establish rapport, feel the difficulty, and builds a good amount of respect among your people.
2. Be responsible
Responsibility usually refers to the performance of a duty, making sure it’s happening and it’s happening right. When you are trying to avoid accountability, you not being a good leader. Leadership is taking responsibility not avoiding accountability.
3.Have a sharp perception
Learn how people perceive you. All great leaders do. Keeping asking everyone and analyze the feedback you receive. Open, honest communication with everyone can really help most times. Let them speak on your good and bad. Good would let them follow you and bad would help you correct yourself.
4.Self-Assessment
Assess your weakness, realize your strengths, do a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threat) analysis, and think about it. Working on the negative areas would improve your leadership abilities and releasing them from time to time would make you more human.
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