21 indespensable qualities of a leader

1. THE 21 INDISPENSABLE QUALITIES OF
A LEADER

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3. 1. CHARACTER:
Be a Piece of the Rock
 Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men
and women to a common purpose and the
character which inspires confidence – Bernard
Montgomery, British Field Marshal
 Never “for the sake of peace and quiet” deny
your own experience or convictions. – Dag
Hammarskjold, Statesmen and Nobel Peace
Prize Winner

4. 2. CHARISMA:
The first impression can seal the deal
 How can you have charisma? Be more
concerned about making others feel good
about themselves than you are making them
feel good about you – Dan Reiland, Vice
President of Leadership
 I have yet to find the man, however exalted his
station, who did not do better work and put
forth greater effort under a spirit of approval
than under the spirit of criticism – Charles
Schwab, Industrialist

5. 3. COMMITMENT:
It separates doers from dreamers
 People do not follow uncommitted leaders.
Commitment can be displayed in a full range
of matters to include the work hours you
choose to maintain, how you work to improve
your abilities, or what you do for your fellow
workers at personal sacrifice – Stephen
Gregg, Chairman and CEO of Ethix Corp.
 He who has done his best for his own time has
lived for all times – Johann Von schiller,
Plawright

6. 4. COMMUNICATION:
Without It You Travel Alone
 Developing excellent communication skills is
absolutely essential to effective leadership. The
leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas
to transmit sense of urgency and enthusiasm to
others. If a leader can’t get a message across
clearly and motivate others to act on it, then
having a message doesn’t even matter.- Gilbert
Amelio, President and CEO of National
Semiconductor Corp.
 Educators take something simple and make it
complicated. Communicators take something
complicated and make it simple. – John C.
Maxwell

7. Communication problem

8. 5. COMPETENCE:
If You Build It, They Will Come
 Competence goes beyond words. It’s the
leader’s ability to say it, plan it, and do it in
such a way that others know that you know
how- and know that they want to follow you. –
John C. Maxwell
 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell them them, Certainly I can! then get busy
and frin out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt

9. 6. COURAGE:
One Person With Courage Is a Majority
 Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human
qualities. . . Because it is the quality which
guarantees all others. – Winston Churchill,
British Prime Minister
 Courage is fear that has said its prayers. –
Karl Barth, Swiss Theologian

10. 7. DISCERNMENT:
Put an End to Unsolved Mysteries
 Smart leaders believe only half of what they
hear. Discerning leaders know which half to
believe. – John C. Maxwell
 The first rule of holes: When you’re in one,
stop digging. – Molly Ivins, Columnist

11. 8. FOCUS:
The Sharper It is, The Sharper You Are
 If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. –
Unknown
 What people say, what people do, and what
they say they do are entirely different things. –
Margaret Mead, Anthropologist

12. 9. GENEROSITY:
Your Candle Loses Nothing When It Lights Another
 No person was ever honored for what he
received. Honor has been the reward for what
he gave. – Calvin Coolidge, American
President
 Giving is the highest level of living. – John C.
Maxwell

13. The Power of Giving

14. 10. INITIATIVE:
You Won’t Leave Home Without It
 Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving. – Conrad
Hilton, Hotel Executive
 Of all the things a leader should fear,
complacency should head the list. – John C.
Maxwell

15. 11. LISTENING:
To Connect With Their Hearts, Use Your Ears
 The ear of the leader must right with the
voices of the people. – Woodrow Wilson,
American President
 A good leader encourages followers to tell him
what he needs to know, not what he wants to
hear. – John C. Maxwell

16. 12. PASSION:
Take This Life And Love It
 When a leader reaches out in passion, he is
usually met with an answering passion. – John
C. Maxwell
 Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you
will never cease to grow.
 Nothing is as important as passion. No matter
what you want to with your life, be passionate

17. 13. POSITIVE ATTITUDE:
If You Believe You Can, You Can
 The greatest discovery of my generation is
that human beings can alter their lives by
altering their attitude of mind. – William James,
Psychologist
 A successful man is one who can lay a firm
foundation with the bricks others have thrown
at him. – David Brinkley, Television Journalist

18. Believe you can

19. 14. PROBLEM SOLVING:
You Can’t Let Your Problems Be a Problem
 You can measure a leader by the problems he
tackles. He always looks for ones his own size.
– John C. Maxwell
 The measure of success is not whether you
have a tough problem to deal with, but whether
it is the same problem you had last year. –
John Foster Dulles, Former Secretary of State

20. 15. RELATIONSHIPS:
If You Get Along, They’ll Go Along
 The most important single ingredient in the
formula of success is knowing how to get
along with people. – Theodore Roosevelt,
American President
 People don’t care how much you know, until
they know how much you care. – John C.
Maxwell

21. 16. RESPONSIBILITY:
If You Won’t Carry the Ball, You can’t Lead the Team
 Success on any major scale requires you to
accept responsibility. . . In the final analysis,
the one quality that all successful people have
is the ability to take on responsibility. – Michael
Korda, Editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster
 A leader can give up anything- except final
responsibility = John C. Maxwell

22. 17. SECURITY:
Competence Never Compensates for Insecurity
 You can’t lead people if you need people. –
John C. Maxwell
 No man will make a great leader who wants to
do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
– Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

23. 18. SELF-DISCIPLINE:
The First Person You Lead Is You
 The first best victory is to conquer self. – Plato,
Philosopher
 A man without decision of character can never
be said to belong to himself . . . He belongs to
whatever can made captive of him. – John
Foster, Author

24. 19. SERVANTHOOD:
To Get Ahead, Put Others First
 The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves
their best interests, and in so doing will not
always be popular, may not always impress.
But because true leaders are motivated by
loving concern rather than a desire for
personal glory, they are willing to pay the
price. – Eugene B. Habecker, Author
 You’ve got to love your people more than your
position. – John C. Maxwell

25. 20. TEACHABILITY:
To Keep Leading, Keep Learning
 Value your listening and reading time at
roughly ten times your talking time. This will
assure you that you are on a course of
continuous learning and self-improvement. –
Gerald McGinnis, President and CEO of
Respironics, Inc.
 It’s what you learn after you know it all that
counts. – John Wooden, Hall of Fame
Basketball Coach

26. 21. VISION:
You Can Seize Only What You Can See
 A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision
comes from passion, not position. – John C.
Maxwell
 The future belongs to those who see
possibilities before they become obvious. –
John Sculley, Former CEO of Pepsi and Apple
Computer

27. Vision is like a Magic