Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.
Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.
To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
I say this all the time: Everyone can make a conscious choice to be a leader.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.