:: Ernie Chen | The 7 Essentials of Leadership

Leadership comes in many forms and it requires various skills to ensure the success of each leader. I have listed the 7 key essentials that I truly believe is a must for every leader to be consistently and continuously successful.

Leadership is an art form. The only constant thing is change itself. Leaders need to change, keep reinventing themselves, adapt, move, forget yesterday, forgive, and structure new roles and new relationships for themselves, their teams, and their ever-evolving partners and alliances.

Leaders enthuse a purpose. If you want people to care and I mean really care, they must be given a real reason to care. They must feel that they are part of a team that will go down in history for creating the most amazing journey, achieving customer delight so intense that it becomes a story many will admire and speak of in time to come.

Leaders create more leaders. Traditional leaders measure their power by the number of followers they have below them. The greater the number, the more powerful they perceive themselves to be. The greatest leaders are those that create other leaders. They are constantly looking to create more leaders in order to empower others to find and create their own visions to achieve their own aspirations.

Leaders make mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes and that includes leaders. "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm", said Winston Churchill. It’s like hitting the jackpot in whatever we do. We do not need to hit it all the time. We just need to hit it one time and make sure it is a big one.

Leaders learn with humility. We tend to accumulate much intellectual capital by attending conferences prior to becoming a leader. We networked and kept our eyes and ears tuned, and that propelled us into the primetime of leadership. Then we get into the politics of implementation and begin to believe that the accumulated wisdom is just too difficult to do consistently. And because we are so lazy to or too arrogant to realize it, we stop to learn. Leaders work more and think more to keep it from happening. We just have to keep the focus on the humility of learning.

Leaders have great stories to share. Be it a musical, a concert, a movie or an organization, every show piece has its’ story. Great performances have great stories. Effective articulation of a story is key to leadership communication and great leaders share great stories.

Leaders deliver results. If you claim to be a real leader today, then you need to be the pizza man: You better deliver! Ideas and smart talk may have worked in the past to impress. Not anymore. The only thing that matters today is leadership performance. Getting results is key to your leadership success.




	The 7 Essentials of Leadership By Ernie Chen Leadership comes in many forms and it requires various skills to ensure the success of each leader. I have listed the 7 key essentials that I truly believe is a must for every leader to be consistently and continuously successful. Leadership is an art form. The only constant thing is change itself. Leaders need to change, keep reinventing themselves, adapt, move, forget yesterday, forgive, and structure new roles and new relationships for themselves, their teams, and their ever-evolving partners and alliances. Leaders enthuse a purpose. If you want people to care and I mean really care, they must be given a real reason to care. They must feel that they are part of a team that will go down in history for creating the most amazing journey, achieving customer delight so intense that it becomes a story many will admire and speak of in time to come. Leaders create more leaders. Traditional leaders measure their power by the number of followers they have below them. The greater the number, the more powerful they perceive themselves to be. The greatest leaders are those that create other leaders. They are constantly looking to create more leaders in order to empower others to find and create their own visions to achieve their own aspirations. Leaders make mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes and that includes leaders. "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm", said Winston Churchill. It’s like hitting the jackpot in whatever we do. We do not need to hit it all the time. We just need to hit it one time and make sure it is a big one. Leaders learn with humility. We tend to accumulate much intellectual capital by attending conferences prior to becoming a leader. We networked and kept our eyes and ears tuned, and that propelled us into the primetime of leadership. Then we get into the politics of implementation and begin to believe that the accumulated wisdom is just too difficult to do consistently. And because we are so lazy to or too arrogant to realize it, we stop to learn. Leaders work more and think more to keep it from happening. We just have to keep the focus on the humility of learning. Leaders have great stories to share. Be it a musical, a concert, a movie or an organization, every show piece has its’ story. Great performances have great stories. Effective articulation of a story is key to leadership communication and great leaders share great stories. Leaders deliver results. If you claim to be a real leader today, then you need to be the pizza man: You better deliver! Ideas and smart talk may have worked in the past to impress. Not anymore. The only thing that matters today is leadership performance. Getting results is key to your leadership success. Last updated - 30 December 2004
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