A Good Business Leader Some Attributes or Qualities

Some Essential Attributes

Courage
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill
When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure. Mary Kay Ash

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Self Control
He that controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao Tsu

Effective leadership will never be attained without self control. Of all controls available to a business leader; control over emotions is supreme. Without it; your success in leadership will be limited.

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Good sense of Judgment

Leaders sometimes find themselves in a dilemma or situation where they have to trust their instinct and sense of judgment. One attribute of good leadership is the ability to discern right and wrong; and also making the right decisions when in a dilemma.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgments. Dr Warne W. Dyer

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Definiteness of Decision One thing with being a leader is that the decision making rests solely on your shoulders and you have to live with the consequences of your decisions. You may have a great business team but they are not going to make the decisions for you; all they are going to do is render advice. To be a good business leader, you must be definite and firm in your decision. Before making an important decision, get as much as you can of the best information available and review it carefully, analyze it and draw up worst case scenarios. Add up the plus or minus factors, discuss it with your team and do what your guts tell you to do.

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Skillful Planning Skillful planning is another attribute of good leadership. Good leaders are known to be tactical planners and plan executors. They plan and strategize critically with their team before making any move or taking any decision. The best thing to invest in your business is your time. To schedule, plan and use time effectively, know your turf and know your objectives. Assess the obstacles and opportunities, then devise your strategies.

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Understanding It takes character and control to be understanding and forgiving. Dale Carnegie You need understanding to decode signals sent across to you by your followers. You also need understanding to make good judgments of situations and handle staff conflict.

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Responsibility A real leader faces the music even when he doesnt like the tune. Arnold H. Glassgow Fear of responsibility and accountability is the utmost reason why most people shy away from occupying leadership positions. As a business leader, you are responsible for the entire actions of your team. If things goes right, your entire team will share the honor and recognition with you but when things go wrong; you are alone. Ability to take responsibility is therefore the major difference between a leader and a follower. Fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong men. Seneca

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Team work Successful businessmen share the ability to hire people smarter than they are. Dillard Munford Good business leaders dont work alone; they bring on board people who are smarter than they are and delegate duties to these smart individuals. Business leaders know that worthwhile achievements are never accomplished by stand alone men but by great business teams. Just like Sam Walton says individuals dont win in business; teams do. I hire people brighter than me and I get out of their way. Lee Iacocca

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Good Personality The most important thing in your business relationships is your reputation for honesty. Never doubt it. The Mafia Manager Personality is your Character. Your character is who you are and what you are made up of; without which you will never make a good leader. Good personality entails having integrity, charisma, self confidence and a good appearance. No employee, investor or customer will willingly follow a timid leader who lacks good character. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and only five Minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you will do things differently. Warren Buffett

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Humility Leadership is not being at the helm of affairs neither is it overseeing a large group of followers. Leadership in business is all about directing a team towards achieving the desired goal and that business team comprise of men and women who are smarter than you in all ramifications. So if you must lead such individuals of high intellect; then you need to be humble.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the IKEA employees. Ingvar Kamprad It takes humility to admit your mistakes in business; it takes humility to learn new things and it takes humility to direct smarter individuals. Take a look at the achievements of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Andrew Carnegie; and you will come to acknowledge the importance of humility in business leadership. As a final note, these are the ten traits every entrepreneur must possess to become a good business leader.

Steve Jobs
When Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California , his unwed mother decided to put him for adoption because she wanted a girl. So in the middle of the night, his mother called a lawyer named Paul Jobs and said, We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him? He went to college but decided to drop out because it was too expensive. Recalling his time there he said, I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.

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Jobs and Apple At 20, he and a friend (Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Later that year, the duo built up the Apple I at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California. A local store offered to buy 50 machines and to finance the production, the duo had to sell their most expensive possessions. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van while Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Jobs named their company Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon.

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By 1986 the Mac, which Jobs promised to be insanely great was a huge success. After 10 years, starting from 2 kids working in a garage, Apple computer had grown into a $2 billion dollar company with over 4000 employees. At 30 Jobs, however, was fired from the company he cofounded with Steve Wozniak. He left the company after losing a bitter battle over control with Apples CEO John Sculley (whom Jobs had recruited from Pepsi Cola).

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After Apple When Jobs heard of the message he said, Youve probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind out you and you cannot breathe. The harder you try to breathe, the more you cannot breathe. And you know that the only thing you can do is just relax so you can start breathing again. Jobs sold over $20 million of his Apple stock, spent days bicycling along the beach, feeling sad and lost, toured Paris, and journeyed on to Italy. Recalling this publicly heartbreaking episode Jobs said, I didnt see it then, . It was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years he started two companies One didnt work, the other was a success. Pixar, however was a success story. The company started the first computer-animated film, the Toy Story and when Pixars stock went public, Jobs became an instant billionaire.

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Jobs, back with a vengeance Meanwhile, his old company, Apple was under immense pressure from rival Microsoft and in 1996 posted billions of dollars in losses. In December 1996 Jobs convinced Apple to buy NeXT .The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of Apples comeback. Initially appointed as Apples adviser, Steve Jobs was named Apples interim CEO in 1997.

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In 2004 he was diagnosed with cancer on his pancreas. Jobs was told that the cancer was incurable and he would only live for another three to six months. Later, a biopsy showed that he actually had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. He had the surgery and survived till 2012. Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations such as the iPod.

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Steve Jobs advice Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Dont lose faith. Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Youve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet, keep looking. Dont settle.

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Steve Jobs advice Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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Ratan Tata

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Chanda Kochhar MD & CEO, ICICI Bank

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders

Some Great Indian Business Leaders