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How do leaders tick?

When I am doing a spot of life coaching with leaders there are a number of areas that I look at. I am more concerned with the way that they as leaders interact with the world around them than their intelligence. I want to see what motivates them, or how they persist in the face of their daily frustrations. Are they selfish leaders? Do they allow stresses to swamp their ability to think, to empathise and to hope?

Leadership Requirments.

Leadership has many requirmets  here is my spin on what makes a great leader great. The ten best Leadership requirements are: 1) Vision, without it how can a leader hope to take anyone anywhere. 2) Integrity:   Without it how is any leader going to be trusted. 3) Respect: Unless a leader earns the respect of those they lead any success will be short lived. 4) Authenticity: A con artist in leadership can be spotted at ten paces; unfortunately many people are blind to the Con 5) Encouragement: great leaders are constantly encouraging those who work with and for them to complete the vision. 6) Listening: Good leaders are always good listeners, that's how they keep their fingers on the pulse of what is going. 7) Vulnerability: This lets those that leaders lead see the human side of the man that leads them. 8) Service: Great leaders serve, they want to serve and they do serve. But they are not someone else’s slaves. 9) Courage: Without this a leader cannot ho...