Posted on Mar 7, 2014
What are the most significant traits of successful leaders?
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I just read an interesting article by Lou Adler, "Do You Possess the Big Five Traits of Success?"
Of these five traits, which do you find most important?
1. Passion: a love for the work you’re doing.
2. Talent: the ability to do outstanding work.
3. Team Skills: the ability to influence, organize, develop, lead and cooperate with others.
4. Thinking: the ability to apply a person’s SKAs for planning, problem solving, seeing out of the box and decision making.
5. Perseverance: the fortitude and commitment to get the job done regardless of the circumstances.
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Of these five traits, which do you find most important?
1. Passion: a love for the work you’re doing.
2. Talent: the ability to do outstanding work.
3. Team Skills: the ability to influence, organize, develop, lead and cooperate with others.
4. Thinking: the ability to apply a person’s SKAs for planning, problem solving, seeing out of the box and decision making.
5. Perseverance: the fortitude and commitment to get the job done regardless of the circumstances.
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A true leader, is a person who takes in all the good and bad----- and makes an even playing field for all to accept!! Worked for many Chiefs in the AF, that I came in contact with!
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I've heard integrity defined as doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking. I think that goes right along with this definition.
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MSgt Michelle Mondia
I see to many individuals use leadership positions as champain opportunities instead of a genuine passion to inspire and mentor others. "Because of deep love one is courageous. Because of frugality one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world one becomes the leader of the world" -Lao Tzu
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Of those choices, I would choose passion, hands down. With passion will come desire to excel, deserve to serve, integrity, and every other tool you need IOT be successful as a Leader. I was fortunate to love 99 out of every 100 days for my 22 years, and the dwindling passion was the main reason that I pulled my reserve and slipped off into retirement.
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Chief, those are all traits we should have as a leader, and look for in future leaders. However, I firmly believe that character is the most important trait of leadership.
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Gen (Ret) Norman Schwarzkopf
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Team skills; that is what we do daily. The ability to recognize the need to organize, task, and exploit talent in those we lead. Also, recognizing that WE are a part of the team. We may not necessarily always be the highlight of the task, but our input (big or small) is vital to its success
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Passion! You have to love what you are doing, great things come out of something powerful like loving what you do!
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SSgt Fair, Passion will certainly get us started in the right direction. It's important to enjoy what your tasked to do. Passion will make you work harder and study more so that you can be the best at a given task.
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I believe it would have to be an individuals perseverance the fortitude and commitment to get the job done regardless of the circumstances. If they have this everything else will just fall in to place . You will do your best to develop the talent through perseverance. Obviously your persistence in going forward shows the passion you have for it, and also shows that you have the right mindset to accomplish a task of that caliber.
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SFC Butler,
I like how you tied the other traits together with perseverance. We definitely need perseverance in our line of work. We can't quit when the going gets tough. I don't necessarily agree that perseverance equates to passion. There were MANY tasks or duties I was given as a young enlisted member that I pressed forward and completed out of obligation much more so than passion. (Barracks clean up, post police, etc) It is much easier to display perseverance if you have passion though.
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