The 11 characteristics of great leadership

"Leadership courses almost always focus on the skills and competencies expected of leaders: how to give feedback, how to communicate, how to deal with conflict – that kind of thing. Rarely is character a topic in the curriculum even though who a leader is can often be the most reliable predictor of what that leader actually does. In other words, there may be less of a need to teach leaders step-by-step processes if they already embody the core characteristics of what makes a leader great in the first place.

Guidance on that front is now empirically available, thanks to research just published in the Journal of Management Studies. The researchers surveyed and tested almost 1100 leaders and more than 700 of their employees. They started with dozens of characteristics and whittled them down to 11 of what they call the most virtuous. Here they are in no particular order." Read more

James Adonis Brisbane Times 16 Feb 2017