{"id":92,"date":"2006-06-08T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=92"},"modified":"2006-06-08T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T21:17:13","slug":"traits-of-great-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/traits-of-great-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Traits of Great Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CareerBuilder has an article out regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerbuilder.com\/jobposter\/smallbiz\/articles.aspx?articleID=ENT00004&#038;siteid=JP_Mail_NL_A&#038;sc_extcmp=JP_Mail_NL_Leader&#038;cbRecursionCnt=1&#038;cbsid=d81a6f2865d04b6881ae8db13b0ace5f-203094909-TK-1\" target=\"_blank\">5 Key Traits of Great Leaders<\/a>.  As you know, we enjoy lists at The Hire Sense.  The author provides a fair explanation of each trait and I doubt anyone would argue with any of the traits.  Here they are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li>You must have a vision.<\/li>\n<li>You must have passion.<\/li>\n<li>You must learn to be a great decision maker.<\/li>\n<li>You must be a team builder.<\/li>\n<li>You must have character.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Again, who would argue with these 5?  Well, I will&#8230;with the last one.  First, an excerpt from the author&#8217;s explanation of that point (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Without character, all the other &#8220;keys&#8221; are for naught. That&#8217;s because your innate <strong>character<\/strong> strengths and limitations play a critical role in your leadership style. The real question is, are you aware of just what role they play? All great leaders have taken steps to learn about their individual <strong>personality<\/strong> and what part it plays in their leadership style.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s your leadership style? If you don&#8217;t know, there are many leadership style assessments available on the market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, we offer a leadership style assessment for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Evaluating_Management.html\" target=\"_blank\">managers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Evaluating_Executive.html\" target=\"_blank\">executives<\/a>.  However, we do not equate these assessments to a person&#8217;s character or personality.  Instead, they are representative of their leadership and communication style.  Character and personality are poor choices of words for assessing.<\/p>\n<p>Character matters immensely, but it is far from defined by leadership style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CareerBuilder has an article out regarding the 5 Key Traits of Great Leaders. As you know, we enjoy lists at The Hire Sense. The author provides a fair explanation of each trait and I doubt anyone would argue with any of the traits. Here they are: You must have a vision. You must have passion. You must learn to be a great decision maker. You must be a team builder. You must have character. Again, who would argue with these 5? Well, I will&#8230;with the last one. First, an excerpt from the author&#8217;s explanation of that point (emphasis mine): Without character, all the other &#8220;keys&#8221; are for naught. That&#8217;s because&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/traits-of-great-leaders\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-1u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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