62. Polish the Whole Diamond

Whether you focus on coaching or training, your ultimate success in developing others as leaders demands that you cultivate the full range of a person's potential. People are whole beings. People take action (handiwork), experience the pressure of action (bodily stress), and have ideas and information about how to do their work (their intellectual capital). Developing leadership demands a holistic approach. Those we label natural born leaders invest in improving not only a person's industry knowledge, technical expertise, or political savvy; skillful leaders focus on more than simply the current task or job or company conditions. They polish all facets of people's potential to prepare them for any leadership possibility. ...

Get The 108 Skills of Natural Born Leaders now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.