LEARNING BY DOING

We developed a list of leadership qualities from a variety of research articles and my personal library of seven hundred books on the topic of leadership. The list was narrowed to sixteen qualities and analyzed for patterns and categories. About half of the qualities seemed to reflect character issues and the other half issues related to competencies or skills. Each of these two groups seemed to fall into two subgroups as well. In character there were values (ethics, integrity, responsibility, and commitment) and attitudes (honor, confidence, servanthood, and optimism). In competencies, relationships (communication, recruiting, team building, and conflict management) and decisions (power, vision, strategy, and dealing with change) ...

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