Leadership and Its Secrets

To lead or to manage?

Or is it better to balance both?

In a stable, non-turbulent, economically-predictable universe it’s prudent to establish and create jobs with a task orientation.

That’s when we know what’s going to happen, when we know what the environment is going to be like, when we know how the markets are going to react to what we do, as a business community.

But what happens in the reality we live in and in the critical situations some of the industries were faced with in the last years?

What happens when what you wanted your people to do yesterday is no longer applicable today? What happens when the uncertainty dominates and you no longer know what’s going to happen next?

Earlier this week The Institute of Leadership held its inaugural award ceremony. I thought, as one of its Fellows, that I ought to share with you some of the key psychological traits and managerial (yes!!!) skills the best leaders I've met and worked with have. Some might surprise you, others may not.

I've explained them all in this video:

Written by a human - me