What personality traits make a good business leader?
WITH THE economic crisis all around us, many business people are coming apart at the edges. It takes a great person with emotional stability to stride the divide and mend the gaps when they come unstuck! Having worked with some very accomplished leaders in my day, I would sum up their most impressive traits as follows: A great leader brings out the best in each of us. They do not critique or offer negative judgment but instead aim to bring out the best solutions to success with self-disciplined stamina. It is their listening skills that come into play and their ability to extract quality feedback from everyone around them. They don’t bring in the ‘fear factor,’ which shuts others down to feedback and resolution; they encourage creative thinking and crazy, playful answers – which often times will hold pearls of wisdom. The most serious mistake a leader can make is not being able to manage their behavior and engaging in self-destructiveness. I have see people who have fallen into leaders
