Qualities of Successful Leaders

05/18/2021

Qualities of Successful Leaders

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

In the book Developing People in Early Childhood Organizations, Pam Schiller writes that one of the qualities of a successful leader is to act “in many ways like a winning coach.” She also discusses the vital importance of leaders serving as positive role models.

In Mike Brown’s popular book, Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating and Attracting Creative Business Leaders, he talks about the concept of servant leadership: “Individuals with a propensity toward servant leadership instinctively look at opportunities and issues with others’ interests as the starting perspective. You might think that a servant leader is always in the background. That isn’t accurate, though. Sometimes a servant leader is putting a teammate in the position to be in front and in charge; at other times, the servant leader must be in the spotlight when that’s what it takes for the team to succeed.

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