A lot of people have asked me what it takes to be a leader like a CEO of a successful organisation. What does a leader have that an employee doesn’t? What separates a leader from the rest is definitely not just talent, handwork and intelligence. After all, there are many intelligent and hardworking people who will not make it as a successful leader. Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba recently gave a very good answer to this question. He said that a leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee’s. Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn’t, it means you have hired the wrong person. What, then, makes the leader stands out? A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee. A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t. A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure. The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his ability to accept and overcome failure. What separates a leader from his employees is PERSONAL MASTERY... something which I learnt from studying NLP and it is what I teach people at the Patterns of Excellence Programme
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 01:46:23 +0000
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