What makes Sidney Crosby the best leader in hockey? We tried to find out
FROM thinking that people will follow you blindly, TO realizing the most optimistic leaders have the most zealous followers.
Jared Belsky • The Great Client Partner: How Soft Skills Are the True Currency in Client Relationships
Optimism. One of the most important qualities of a good leader is optimism, a pragmatic enthusiasm for what can be achieved. Even in the face of difficult choices and less than ideal outcomes, an optimistic leader does not yield to pessimism. Simply put, people are not motivated or energized by pessimists.
Robert Iger • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Kobe Bryant: becoming a better leader
youtube.comThe early twentieth-century philosopher of history Oswald Spengler captured this task when he described the ‘born’ leader as ‘above all a valuer – a valuer of men, situations, and things . . . [with the ability] to do the correct thing without “knowing” it’.[3]
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
To stand apart and be willing to question where the leader is going is the task of the critical follower. Great leadership happens when there is strong and independently minded followership. Hence, when it comes to constructive criticism, a disciple may challenge a teacher and a prophet may reprimand a king.