Eight Tips for becoming a true leader
By: Jeff Wuorio
But in business, plotting long and hard to climb into a leadership role often is indistinguishable from inadvertently falling into one. The fact is, whether you take a deliberate step toward an objective or immediately trip on a shoelace, you may end up in the same spot. Put another way,many people who have a laser focus on getting to the top make it there no faster than those who have a leadership opportunity thrust upon them.
Yet knowing the difference between thoughtful business leadership and the kind that happens seemingly by accident is critical --- not only in you ability to grow and develop as a leader, but to establish a pattern of success that's deliberate, not miraculous.
Here, then, are eight attributes tat separate genuine leadership from leadership that's ,more a matter of chance:
Real leadership means leading yourself.
Passing out orders is as easy as passing out business cards. But a prudent leader also knows how to lead himself or herself --- not merely to provide a genuine example to others, but to become a working element of the overall machinery of your business. "Its importance that leaders have the ability to focus and motivate themselves as they motivate others", says Larraine Segil, and author and consultant ho teaches executive education at the California institute of technology in Pasadena.
Don't be a monarch.
Thoughtful leadership likely means you already have a talented work force in place. That's terrific, but be careful not to set up a thorne room in the process. Accidental leaders often inadvertently establish a system of guidences that's unnecessarily restrictive. Guide employees, but don't implement more parameters than are than are absolute ...