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A. Laudenslager wrote: A. Stafford wrote:
Too many leaders in the public and Many leaders lack a shared purpose with
private sectors lack the courage their followers. The leader's outcomes are
necessary to honor their disconnected from their team's.
obligations to others and to uphold
Example: a CEO who gets a bonus while his
the essential values of leadership.
company's stock price is dropping
(shareholders), and employees are getting
~John McCain, U.S. Senator laid off. It has become everyone-for-
himself rather than a shared purpose and
shared outcomes.
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J. H. Brondum wrote:
Emotional Intelligence.
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C. Norris wrote:
Great question, one that I'm sure will generate a wide variety of answers.
I believe many leaders today under-utilize and underestimate the talent within
their organizations. I have seen many wonderfully talented people leave
organizations, not because of money, but because they weren't challenged or
given an opportunity to contribute fully to the organization. If leaders viewed
every hiring decision as a $1-3MM+ investment I think they would spend more
time figuring out to maximize the potential return in that investment. Leaders
who allow talent to take intelligent risk, support them behind the scenes to set
them up for success, and use failure as a means of learning rather than blaming,
will ultimately take an organization further than one who manages by
command/control/edit.
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M. Aitken wrote:
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J. Page wrote: J. Weinberg wrote:
I think this question needs to be asked over and over again, keeping the spotlight and the
focus in the areas that need the improvement.
With all due respect, in my view there is no one thing across the board that is lacking.
Each of us (each of our leaders) has our/their own set of blind spots. While some will be
overlapping, there is not one unique blind spot shared by all. Perhaps it is the notion of
believing that there is a unique primary blind spot.
If we could get past that, then we could start on the difficult work that remains of filling in
all the gaps that contribute to the leadership vacuum. Regards, and thank you very much
for the question.
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D. Scott wrote:
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B. Brinkman wrote:
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J. Inman Ed.M. PHR wrote:
Y. Haidai wrote:
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T.L. Maurer wrote:
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C. Baula wrote: A. Saeed, PMP wrote:
I vote for a combination of kindness and excellence. By kindness I mean things like
respect for others and yourself, clear boundaries with compassion etc.
The result is a combination of four factors with kindness sustaining excellence and
vise versa.
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Stamina Communication
Ability to inspire people
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B. Potta wrote:
1. Success: Most leaders understand Success as Own Success and focus much
attention to individual success pursuits. True leader will achieve Own Success by
ensuring every one in his team Succeeds, and much attention will be focused on
how as a leader I can help each one in my team succeed.
2. People: Most leaders remain managers and limit their efforts to managing
people’s time, tasks, etc.. True leader will focus on how he/she can help
individuals learn and support them to be able to do their job successfully and aid
in career building.
3. Primary Responsibility: While a Managers primary responsibility is to ensure
the job at hand is done, a leader’s primary responsibility will be to create a team
with able people and support them get the job done.
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A. Paranjpe wrote: V. Mani wrote:
Leaders just don't know the Here you go with my answers on what
meaning of Leadership anymore! generally Leaders of these days miss out in
Their management degrees teach general:
them that its all about being the one Personal integrity
who is most vocal on the floor. Willingness to be accountable
However, today's leaders lack vision, Awareness of how business works
empathy, courage to stand up for Caring about seeing the company succeed
their subordinates, and hindsight Commitment to continued learning
into a subordinate role they once Succession Planning
were in. Transformational Leadership skills
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V. Prabhu wrote: J. Arora wrote:
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S. Hansen wrote:
What is missing? The ability to stimulate leadership in the people you work with!
A lot of 'leaders' are just managing (themselves) in other to control others.
T. Best wrote:
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A. Khan wrote:
I can see a lot of very intelligent answers, so I shall not try and list
what they do not have. I will say something that they have, and
that makes them what they are.
Most leaders today are working for themselves, and not for the
good of their job, the company, and even their own country. They
are striving very hard to benefit themselves, and make hollow
claims that they are working for the common good. I believe a lot
of things need to be changed to change this attitude.
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A. Mittal wrote:
I feel the most important thing in a leader should be first do the things
yourself, set examples, show the way of doing things and then expect
the results from your team. But this is lacking in most of the leaders.
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C. Predeanu wrote: L. Becerra wrote:
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T. Corbett wrote:
Interesting question.
As this article points out the incompetent leader is one who is unaware of their relative
strengths and weaknesses. So to actually answer your question that attribute that is missing
most often from people in leadership positions who do not exhibit real leadership is self
awareness.
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S. Mehta wrote:
Many of the business leaders today mostly lack one thing - Long
term strategy aligned with their vision.
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L. Lindsay wrote: P. Heppding wrote:
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B. Clere wrote:
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S. Jatain wrote:
Lack of really good opportunities where leaders can actually show/prove what
they got to offer based on their immediate responsibilities. Office politics is
ruling the corporate sector. Beggars are choosers. Leaders are battling the so
called 'Internal Politics'.
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C. Bragg wrote:
Good question Tom. I wonder how many see the word "leader" and think "manager". There is a HUGE
difference between the two.
I would like to see more people in leadership roles LEAD those they are charged to manage. Successful
leaders have a vision for what they seek to accomplish, where they want to go, and are adept at
communicating it AND reinforcing its pursuit everyday. Successful leaders hand out equal amounts of
responsibility and authority to those they lead with the confidence that doing so is the only way of
reaching the shared vision. Doing so positions people to manage themselves which has proved to be
quite effective.
Too many people in management positions think that leadership comes from their title or level of
responsibility. It doesn’t work that way.
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G. Robinson wrote:
This is paraphrasing something Henry Kissinger said, a few years back and resonates
still greater today, in the age of the Internet enabled sound bite...
The modern leader, whether a political, religious or business leader is less interested in
being a practitioner than a superstar. Practitioners walk alone; stars derive their status
from approbation.
Practitioners are defined by inner values, stars by consensus. When a leader’s views are
forged in white elephant committees and ratified by sycophants, disproportioned levels
of insecurity and superficiality become congenital. Mediocrity replaces meritocracy,
and indecision masquerades as consensus building.
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi.
"This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a
temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over
timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease."
– Robert Kennedy.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of
life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity
hanging on a cross of iron." – Dwight Eisenhower.
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S. Yantra wrote:
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K. Daisley wrote:
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M. Juneja wrote:
The biggest problem lies in the fact that they delegate without giving
authority, which ultimately takes away the challenge to do something new,
encouragement to take initiatives, willingness to take the OWNERSHIP
from all those who're working 'under' that leader.
R. Siegel wrote:
K. Brame wrote:
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G. Sullam wrote:
R. Elmes wrote:
One word...Empathy!!!
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K. Berchelmann wrote:
Courage -- to make hard decisions; to stand behind them afterward, and to support
the values and ethics of an organization even when grossly uncomfortable. To take
measured risks.
Credibility -- a track record of doing what you say you'll do. Making realistic
expectations of others, and using accountability as a common thread for all involved.
Empathy -- the ability to listen, understand, and relate. Accepting input, and
having the personal mettle to explain why someone's advice won't be used his time.
Realizing that most people -- generally -- want the same things from their work
experience.
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