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I took this from the Wall Street Journal, a smart man named Jack Welch wrote it. It is much longer but I thought that I would throw up the main points.
Each of these 5 questions gets at unique qualities that, from experience define a great leader in thought times.
1)is he real?- Authenticity really matters when it comes to crisis leadership. A person cannot make hard decisions, hold unpopular positions, or stand tall for what he believes unless he knows who he is and feels comfortable in his own skin. He needs to have and show self confidence and conviction.
2)Does he see around corners?-Every leader has to have a vision and predict the future, of course, but great leaders in tough times must have a special ability to anticipate and radically unexpected. He needs a seventh sense- paranoia about what lurks in dark corners we cannot even see.
3)Who is around him?- In though times in particular, a leader needs to surround himself with people who are smarter than he is, and they must have the grit to disagree with him and each other. A great leader has the courage to put together a team of people who sometimes makes him look like the dumbest person in the room.
4)Does he get back on the horse?- Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question is, does he learn from his mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction, and confidence? The world around us is going to knock any leader off his horse more than once. He must know how to get back up in the saddle again.
5)Is he pro-business?- The leader must LOVE business, because a thriving economy is the free world's last, best hope. It has become very fashionable over the last few years to say that business is bad and crooked. The anti-business fervor even got to the point that CEOs, who outsourced production, in order to stay competitive, were labeled as "Benedict Arnolds." What nonsense.
Business is great. Successful companies are the engine of a healthy society and nothing shortly of the foundation of a free and democratic world. While government is a key part of the foundation of a free and democratic world. While government is a key par of society and vital to all of us, it makes no money of its own. All the necessary things it provides-from the justice system to welfare and hospitals- come from some form of tax revenue paid by companies and their employees. Government is the support for the engine. It is not the engine.
A great leader in this day and age must appreciate the value of business to the world. He cannot beat it down, denigrate its participants, or create an environment where business people must struggle to build opportunity. When business is weak, America is weak.
I didn't put any opinions in there, i wanted to write what he wrote and i will put my opinions in as people respond to this. I suck at typeing and grammar, so if there are any mistakes that is my fault and i hope that doesn't make you think any less of the message that is being portrayed.
Each of these 5 questions gets at unique qualities that, from experience define a great leader in thought times.
1)is he real?- Authenticity really matters when it comes to crisis leadership. A person cannot make hard decisions, hold unpopular positions, or stand tall for what he believes unless he knows who he is and feels comfortable in his own skin. He needs to have and show self confidence and conviction.
2)Does he see around corners?-Every leader has to have a vision and predict the future, of course, but great leaders in tough times must have a special ability to anticipate and radically unexpected. He needs a seventh sense- paranoia about what lurks in dark corners we cannot even see.
3)Who is around him?- In though times in particular, a leader needs to surround himself with people who are smarter than he is, and they must have the grit to disagree with him and each other. A great leader has the courage to put together a team of people who sometimes makes him look like the dumbest person in the room.
4)Does he get back on the horse?- Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question is, does he learn from his mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction, and confidence? The world around us is going to knock any leader off his horse more than once. He must know how to get back up in the saddle again.
5)Is he pro-business?- The leader must LOVE business, because a thriving economy is the free world's last, best hope. It has become very fashionable over the last few years to say that business is bad and crooked. The anti-business fervor even got to the point that CEOs, who outsourced production, in order to stay competitive, were labeled as "Benedict Arnolds." What nonsense.
Business is great. Successful companies are the engine of a healthy society and nothing shortly of the foundation of a free and democratic world. While government is a key part of the foundation of a free and democratic world. While government is a key par of society and vital to all of us, it makes no money of its own. All the necessary things it provides-from the justice system to welfare and hospitals- come from some form of tax revenue paid by companies and their employees. Government is the support for the engine. It is not the engine.
A great leader in this day and age must appreciate the value of business to the world. He cannot beat it down, denigrate its participants, or create an environment where business people must struggle to build opportunity. When business is weak, America is weak.
I didn't put any opinions in there, i wanted to write what he wrote and i will put my opinions in as people respond to this. I suck at typeing and grammar, so if there are any mistakes that is my fault and i hope that doesn't make you think any less of the message that is being portrayed.
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