Leadership - the John Bertrand summary

Great to see Thomas Chalmers of Leading Figures yesterday for another vastly enjoyable and inspirational conversation covering a few themes including leadership.  This from John Bertrand's book 'Born to Win' (skipper of Australia's America's cup winning boat in the 1980s) - I thought this was a brilliant synopsis of what a great leader is, which was worth sharing, what do you think:

Great leaders are both dream-builders and team-builders. They encourage, empower and develop their people. They demand innovation, creativity and boldness.

Leaders provide purpose, strategy, direction and alignment. They know what success will look like. They anticipate change, and when it happens, they adapt.

They have high emotional intelligence, trusting their intuition. They celebrate their teams’ milestones, their successes. They operate within a very strong set of values of trust, integrity, honesty, transparency, humility.

The culture within these teams is extremely strong. People want to be involved. They love what they do. They are passionate people.

And leaders never give up.