Successful leaders use their innate personality traits and improve upon those with practiced skills.
According to Jack and Suzy Welch, leadership is comprised of five essential traits. These traits are in additional to integrity, intelligence, and emotional maturity, which are a given in any leader.
5 Leadership Traits:
1. Positive energy
2. The ability to energize others
3. Edge
4. The Talent to execute
5. Passion
Edge and the talent to execute are learned traits, so get out there and put those ideas into practice. Leadership is both born and created!
Originally published by Jack and Suzy Welch on LinkedIn.com on May 1, 2016.
See the full post here: Are Leaders Born or Made?