Every Monday, for the next 10 weeks or so, I am in a group of ten entrepreneurs. We are studying John Maxwell's irrefutable laws of leadership.
The leadership qualities I find most attractive, and seem to pop up to my attention as a result of this study, are visionary decisiveness, a reproducing success focus, and humility.
Things that make you want to follow someone, to have ownership in the vision.
I see that kind of leader in lots of places now.
The Prime Minister of Canada is a good example.
Howden Hanes, the courageous race engineer who produced a win for Audi at LeMans in 2008 when the French Peugeot team was the dead-on favorite, is another great example.
And, I saw it the other day when I had coffee with a 30ish former MLS soccer player who seized opportunity and built a life outside of his sport.
In all three of these cases visionary decisiveness, reproducing success focus, and humility were and are evident.
Would that I could develop such qualities.
