Leader: Know yourself
February 27, 2008
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Joel Falconer at Lifehack has a terrific post today about the requirements of a leader to produce results. I love the focus on the people who work for you. Leadership is a service, and I wrote about that earlier.
In short, Joel emphasizes
- the need to build genuine relationships,
- to serve your people and allow them to perform even better, and
- to communicate and facilitate communication extremely well.
Here is one thing that is required to do all that well. You have to know yourself and what you stand for. You have to be completely comfortable in your own skin.
As a leader you should strive to not get praise, but instead shower praise on others.
In your communication, your values need to be expressed all the time. Not in words necessarily. If you stand for ethical treatment of people, does your communication show that each and every time? That consistency is critical.
Are you clearly moving in a direction, does everybody understand that direction and share the vision? There is a requirement for you to first develop the vision and then communicate it.
But first and foremost, if you are about something beyond yourself, and you are no longer seeking recognition all the time, than you are ready to be a great leader.
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