Advice on Being an Effective Leader

This article by Michael Beck offers tips on pinpointing, improving and monitoring personal and organizational leadership skills. Here’s a sneek peek.

Good leadership is hard to define. It can’t be directly measured. There’s no leadership “score” or report card. In fact, often the measure of leadership is qualitative rather than quantitative — although quantitative results always follow. So, the question is how can you tell if your leadership skills are effective? Plain and simple, leadership is about getting others to take action. If leadership effectiveness is lacking, less than best effort is put forth. The better the leadership, the better the effort. Exceptional leadership inspires the best effort in others.

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