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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 hope to achieve what they wish to achieve, "only brave people and fools scale great heights"
And lastly 10)  Prayer: Great leaders are always answerable to a higher power and those who do not acknowledge that power, remain in obscurity.

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