Are You A Leader? | Boost Your Impact

Inspiring leaders make us want to achieve more. They persuade us to their cause, win our active support, help us to work better together and make us feel proud to be part of the communities they create. They communicate tirelessly, and it is their skill at listening and talking that keeps us passionately connected to their vision.

If need be, great leaders get us to face ugly reality, and then they give us a new sense of direction and optimism. Along the way, they help us to see how what we do makes a difference. They listen to us and they respect us. We feel involved and committed. We watch them for cues, and we feel great when they recognize our efforts – and then we try even harder. We follow leaders because of how they make us feel. So, if we want to be better leaders ourselves, what major attributes should we have?

According to Napoleon Hill in his best-seller “Think and Grow Rich”, the following are important factors of leadership:

Unwavering courage based upon knowledge of self and of one’s occupation. No follower wishes to be dominated by a leader who lacks self-confidence and courage. No intelligent follower will be dominated by such a leader for very long.

Self-control. People who cannot control themselves can never control others. Self-control sets a mighty example for one’s followers, which the more intelligent will emulate.

A keen sense of justice. Without a sense of fairness and justice, no leader can command and retain the respect of his or her followers.

Definiteness of decision. People who waver in decisions show they are not sure of themselves. They cannot lead others successfully.

Definiteness of plans. The successful leader must plan the work, and work the plan. A leader who moves by guesswork without practical, definite plans is comparable to a ship without a rudder. Sooner or later it will land on the rocks.

The habit of doing more than paid for. One of the penalties of leadership is the necessity of willingness, upon the part of the leaders, to do more than they require of their followers.

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A pleasing personality. No slovenly, careless person can become a successful leader. Leadership calls for respect. Followers will not respect leaders who do not score highly on all factors of a pleasing personality.

Sympathy and understanding. Successful leaders must be in sympathy with their followers. Moreover, they must understand them and their problems.

Mastery of details. Successful leadership calls for mastery of details of the leader’s position.

Willingness to assume full responsibility. Successful leaders must be willing to assume full responsibility for the mistakes and shortcomings of their followers. If they try to shift this responsibility, they will not remain leaders. If followers make mistakes and become incompetent, it is the leader who has failed.

Cooperation. Successful leaders must understand and apply the principle of cooperative effort and be able to induce followers to do the same. Leadership calls for power, and power calls for cooperation.

By Aline Kerneis
Founder at Boost Your Impact, VC Investor & Virgin StartUp Mentor

Aline Kerneis specializes in business strategy, open innovation, sales boosting, digital marketing, web design and entrepreneurship coaching. She has over 15 years of experience in various industries and corporate structures, first as a Business Developer, then in International Sales, and now Founder of BYI, VC Investor and Mentor for Virgin Startup to help entrepreneurs aged 18-30 achieve their goals and realize their potential through understanding problems, identifying solutions and implementing their plans to success.

Ever since, Aline has been advising hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, inventors and SMEs of a wide range of markets. She has provided business & personal coaching for many of these clients, helping them to unlock their full potential.

Previously, Aline graduated from the International Business School (Paris) with two Business Master’s degrees and, before that, with a Management HND and a second-year university degree in Laws & Economics. However, she was – and is still – a self-taught, constantly studying key books from all over the world to keep adding new knowledge and skills to her existing portfolio with one single objective: bringing more value to her clients.

In five years, she will set up a global foundation based on a pyramidal scheme to help abused women transform their lives through walking the entrepreneurial road.

She is also a mind-shaking writer.