My Learning NotesHow to become a leader
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Daniel Goleman, in his book Primal Leadership, and the course Inspiring and Motivating individuals indicate some abilities to develop to become a great leader.
These abilities are:
- Develop emotional intelligence. However there are some criticisms related to the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership due to measurement issues and an overemphasis on emotions.
- Learn first to know yourself and your own emotions. Learn to handle them and then learn to acknowledge the others’ emotions.
- Search feedback from others’ people and then improve.
- Being able to observe the gap between the reality and the vision of an organisation and then defining a strategy to reduce this gap.
- Learn to create a vision
- Communicate effectively the vision to realise.
- Learn to effectively define goals.
- Motivate people
- Learn to give feedbacks, both negative and positive.
- Learn to convince others to act, rather than doing everything alone.
- Learn to understand what a person can and can’t do and treat that person for what they can do.
- Learn to grow people skills.
My current conclusions
- I think that:
- emotional intelligence is a necessary skill but it is not sufficient to become a great leader. See also The importance of emotions on performances.
- Other necessary characteristics are:
- Rationality
- Competence
- Communication skills
- Ability to communicate a vision of what it has to be done
- Sharing the same core values of the people to lead
- Ability to solve problems and make decisions particularly in difficult contexts
- Ability to understand people needs
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References
- Primal Leadership | 2020 | Daniel Goleman
- Inspiring and Motivating individuals | 2019 | University of Michigan by Coursera
- The Fifth Discipline | 2019 | Peter Senge
- Start with Why | 2019 | Simon Sinek
- Julio Velasco - LEADERSHIP: i 5 pilastri | Julio Velasco
- il Decalogo del Leader | Julio Velasco
- Saper criticare | Julio Velasco
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