Posted on 05/20/2015 7:11:07 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Exactly. Out of all of those points, I DO have to work on the ‘never complains’ area.
If the company I work for would ACT like the Fortune 500 Company they ARE, I could make SO much more $$$$$ for them, and for me! But, Alas! It’s not the I hill I want to die on.
Efficient. Consistent. Persistent. :)
I think my last boss read this list — as “characteristics which all really important people avoid”.
I call BS. I do not have all these traits, yet I am a System Lord with over a billion human slaves who worship me as a deity. I boast all the time, laugh maniacally, am not friendly, show up late whenever I want to, and even explain to the heroes exactly how screwed they are and what all my plans are right before I obliterate them, and so far this has never backfired.
“Obama, The Un-Leader”
Surprising? To whom?
“Surprising? To whom?”
To those who always say, “Completely unexpected!”.
Yeah, those people.
Aw, that’s terrible! How can Hollywood make a movie with a first class corporate villain like THAT?
What can the Politicians and talking heads rail against now?
/s
Both as an Army cadet aspiring to be a leader, and later a commissioned officer, I studied leadership styles not only as part of my professional responsibilities but also out of personal interest. While I agree that the items detailed in the article do tend to be qualities of some great leaders I’ve known (and been led by), many with very different leadership styles, the one defining characteristic they all had was that they were who they are. They did not pretend to be somebody they were not. If a quiet, cerebral, bookish type tried to act like a rough hard guy, the troops saw right through it. Conversely, if an energetic, jock type tried to falsely represent himself as smarter and more intellectual than he was, he also came across as a phony. I saw both types, and many others be effective leaders, but what engendered the respect others had for them was that they were true to self and to who they actually were.
Thanks for that informative comment!
Concur - the article doesn’t seem to indicate that it’s a mixed bag that you pick from, but seems to try and say that you have to have all these. In my current role I’m more of a ‘let ‘em live a life’ while asking as much as I can type; when in an earlier role it was ‘do it or get fried cause I don’t wanna die’ type :) part of that is me maturing and part of that is the role and me realign not wanting to join Davy Jones.
Oh and Go Navy, Beat Army :)
Former Army D.I. now fitness motivator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXc1Itu7GHw
That’s a great list of qualities to which anyone should aspire.
Tall.
“One thing I took curious note of during that time frame was the number of cadets who I saw really trying to emulate R. Lee Ermey’s Gunny Hartman from Full Metal Jacket”
I just can’t wrap my mind around that.
How could they fail to know that that game is just for boot camp?
A really good leader will not only not gossip but actively suppress it.
I have only worked for one boss who did so. The rest either ignored it and the damage it did or actively joined in.
Part of the reason I now work for myself. No gossip in my office!
Although I have caught the cat whispering to the fish on occasion. :)
Sort of like those lists of "characteristics of the super-wealthy," etc.
Regards,
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