- Know your people and your business
- Insist on realism
- Set clear goals and priorities
- Follow through
- Reward the doers
- Expand people's capabilities
- Know yourself
This is what it takes to be a leader. How do you develop these qualities? Mainly from paying attention to experience. You can't master the above by reading a book or watching a DVD. As Bossidy says "this is not an intellectual exercise". Its just takes experience.
That is why every experience and especially the negative one's become positive in the end. Learning these behaviors takes guts, persistence, and a willingness to dust yourself off after being knocked down. But once you get it; sky's the limit and there are not limits to your success.
