Good Leadership
John W. McKenna recently challenged me to write about “Does leadership suck?”, I had a problem with this tag because I felt that it put the focus in the wrong place. I wrote this , which John then rechallanged saying “I think you can do better”. I have decided to write this post in response. Like I told John - It will not focus on whether leadership “sucks”, but rather what good leadership is.
What Is Good Leadership?
Leadership does not evolve from a title. Leadership is about being someone others want to follow. Leaders are passionate and, they love what they do.
Good Leaders have a clear vision for what they want to accomplish and, they share that vision with the team.
A good leader generates measureable concrete goals, and rewards results.
A good leader is willing to take responsibility. They are willing to give the credit for success to the team and, they take sole responsibility for failures?
A good leader inspires and motivates his team, he uses commands sparringly, as he prefers to ask for cooperation.
A good leader is confident, passionate, an excited. He radiates energy which is contagious to those around him. He is willing to dig in and work with his team. He is willing to walk his talk.
A good leader is proactive. He is willing to go a step further, and to work a bit harder than the others.
A good leader trains his team well, he is therefore willing to delegate responsibility without fear of failure.
Good leadership is a choice!
For the second part of the challange I have been asked to tag three bloggers for continuation of the challange. I always seem to tag the same people (God love Karen, Lyman, and Aaron for being such great sports! If you all want to play your welcome to I don’t mean to leave you out but, I also don’t want to over tag you either). Today I’m gonna tag a few I’ve never tagged before.
Pamm Larry at My Secret Spiritual Dance
BigMike at North American Disasterologist Society
Patricia at Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker
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September 10th, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
Priscilla
I knew you could do better.
I like your last line the best, “Good leadership is a choice”. Yes, it is a choice, and one that is not often the easy path.
I’m glad you stuck with the challenge even after I was such a pest
Let me challenge you with one more thing. Please tag your three of your favorite Blogs to take the challenge. Donna is off limits, because I’ve been busy pestering her all week to write a post. So, share the wealth by tagging three people who haven’t been tagged.
Take care…
JWM
September 10th, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
I’m glad you approve this time John. I have just added your tags.
September 10th, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
Priscilla, I think John had already tagged me but I am not sure. I had the same reaction as you. I didn’t want to add to the negative slant that John seemed to be giving the idea. Simple telling someone what they are doing wrong doesn’t “fix” what is wrong and can often bring about even more negative results. As a Lightworker, I want to help spread light not add to the darkness. My time right now is being spent getting ready for my India trip later this month and getting my blog where I want it to be before I leave for 3 weeks so this is the extent of my participating in this particular “assignment”. Thanks for asking me and normally I would accept the challenge, but not this time.
September 10th, 2007 @ 7:43 pm
Patricia- I understand. Have a great time in India.
September 10th, 2007 @ 11:37 pm
Priscilla,
You tagged me for something but I’m having trouble figuring out what it is..:). Can you help?
Lisa
September 11th, 2007 @ 11:47 am
Opps, I didn’t leave the link again. Sorry, The Personal Development List is located here.
September 11th, 2007 @ 12:40 pm
Priscilla,
You are right. Our responses are very much alike. I like the way you think.
BTW, I have just rectified a gross injustice. As you may know, I have been peddaling your list around the blogesphere and you are not even on my blogroll. Well, as of right now that has been rectified. Welcome to my blogroll!
September 11th, 2007 @ 1:21 pm
Thank you Mel! If I had an actual blog roll I would add you to it. I think The Personal Development List basically is my blogroll.
September 11th, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
You did a great job with this challange! I like that you took the positive approach to this.
September 11th, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
Thank you, Mark.
September 11th, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
As you listed above there is a huge difference between good leadership and bad leadership. Goood leadership rarely gets recognized but bad leadership is made a public spectacle. Good leadership is putting the good of others before yourself, if not putting the leader’s betterment last; good leadership is the antithesis of selfishness. Poor leadership is taking advantage of the position that they fill, good leadership is fulfilling the need of direction and authority. This is how I differentiate the two.
BigMike
September 11th, 2007 @ 8:10 pm
I love your definition of good leadership. All the qualities you listed are great ones for anyone to aspire to, whether in a leadership position or not.
Your post is so motivating - it’s easy to say what makes a poor leader, but not as easy to define good leadership.
Great post!
September 13th, 2007 @ 2:23 pm
BigMike- Great points! Thank you for sharing.
Holli Jo- Thank you! That makes me feel good.
September 21st, 2007 @ 5:09 pm
Hey real neat write up man. Very practical too.