With all the talk in the news lately about presidential candidates, it’s a good time to reflect on leadership and what it means to be a leader. Here are nine posts on leadership:
- John Maxwell’s Five Levels of Leadership
- Leadership Book Review: The Secret
- Leadership is Not Speaking Over Others
- Repetition is Key in Leadership
- 2 Action Items Going from Doer to Leader
- Leadership Development Questions from The Secret
- Great Leaders Simplify Complexity
- Consensus or Leader-Led Decision Making in Startups
- The Four Essential Competencies of a Leader
From Warren Bennis, here are the four essential competencies of a leader:
- Leaders are able to engage others by creating shared meaning
- All authentic leaders have a distinctive voice
- All true leaders have integrity
- The most important competency is adaptive capacity — this is what allows leaders to respond quickly and intelligently to relentless change
What else? What kind of leader are you?
David Cummings on Startups 