Answer: Check out this list and decide for yourself.
Being a good leader looks hard, but do-able–if you have good ideas, passion, courageous patience–and lots and lots of social intelligence!
Leadership is about:
- taking people to a pace that they would not go on their own;
- disrupting the core and upsetting the status quo;
- possessing and utilizing the proper skills to envision a preferred future;
- having the ability and commitment to persistently scan the horizon for trends that would either negatively or positively impact that future;
- back-casting by creating strategies that lead toward and enforce the preferred future;
- designing and promoting an environment of creativity in order to develop strategies to avoid obstacles to the preferred future;
- supporting and encouraging the development of disruptive innovations that foster, rather than impede, the future;
- leading the diffusion of those innovations into the general population;
- integrating change-theory strategies that move people forward in a unified manner;
- mentoring managers and followers along the way to keep them focused on the ends.
(by Barry A. Doublestein, MD, Chairman, The Institute of Leadership in Medicine, Harvard Business Review June 2010, page 18, writing a response to the article “Turing Doctors in Leaders”, Harvard Business Review article by Thomas H Lee April 2010)
