Successful LeadershipSuccessful Leadership By MudarwiBy MudarwiApril 29April 29thth, 2015, 2015

An article from www.Forbes.com written by Amy Reese Anderson

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The largest block of respondents (82%), designated The largest block of respondents (82%), designated ""building relationshipsbuilding relationships" as " as the leadership skill most critical the leadership skill most critical for successfor success in their organizations, with " in their organizations, with "managing changemanaging change" " (78%) not far behind. Other skills named as particularly (78%) not far behind. Other skills named as particularly critical included "critical included "leading employeesleading employees" (62%), "" (62%), "decisivenessdecisiveness" " (58%) and "(58%) and "resourcefulnessresourcefulness" (52%)." (52%).

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In December 2005 Leading In December 2005 Leading Effectively e-newsletter, Effectively e-newsletter, readers were polled,… More readers were polled,… More than 180 readers responded than 180 readers responded to the poll.to the poll.Upper-middle managers Upper-middle managers had had the largest representation in the largest representation in the poll (27%) followed by the poll (27%) followed by middle managers middle managers (21%) and (21%) and executive managers executive managers (20%).(20%).

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Leadership skills can be learned, and leadership Leadership skills can be learned, and leadership development benefits individuals and organizations.development benefits individuals and organizations.

Successful leadership development is the result of three things:Successful leadership development is the result of three things:1.1.Individual learner characteristicsIndividual learner characteristics, including willingness and ability to learn, including willingness and ability to learn2.2.The quality and nature of the leadership development programThe quality and nature of the leadership development program, including its , including its structure and contentstructure and content3.3.Opportunities to practice Opportunities to practice new skills and receive performance feedbacknew skills and receive performance feedback

To lead people, walk beside them…As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate…When the best leader’s work is done the people say, “We did it ourselves!” –Lao-Tsu

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. –Isaac Newton

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

The price of greatness is responsibility. –Winston Churchill

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? –Benjamin Disraeli

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. –John F. Kennedy

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. –George Orwell

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. –John Quincy Adams

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. –Steve JobsNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. –Margaret Mead

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Innovative leaders demonstrate the following qualities:Strategic leadership – inspiring individual goalsand organizational visionand culture;Tactical leadership – influencing individual actions and the organizational systems;Integrated Leadership – aligning all key dimensions: goals, actions culture, and systems.- See more at: http://www.metcalf-associates.com/leader-development.html#sthash.jwAcRx9t.dpuf

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