Be A Good Example
You must be a good example yourself first. You must be willing to do what you ask your people to do. Walk your talk. The greatest leader is also the greatest servant. A leader also needs to be passionate about something.
Create A Joint Vision
You give the vision birth and then let your team grow it. You must know your followers. The better you know your followers the more successful you will be as a leader. You need to know what drives them, what their dreams, hopes, aspirations, etc are.
Push Beyond Your Boundaries
If you are a leader you accept challenge. You break new ground. You are willing to take risks and fail, but you are smart about it. You need to know the strengths of your followers so you know how much risk they can handle. As a leader you know that obstacles will help you grow not hurt you. You learn from mistakes and successes and try to turn weaknesses into strengths.
You are not prideful because you will certainly fail if you are. A prideful leader is weak because he thinks he knows it all. You will never or rarely have breakthroughs if you think you know it all.
Enable And Build Other Leaders
One of the worst things you can do as a leader is to keep all the power to yourself. People want to feel they are making a difference in the organization and the world. You need to empower them by giving them responsibilities. You need to give your followers the tools to help them do the impossible.
Also don't let anarchy take over. You must have control; ideally you set up a system so your operation will go on without your constant direct involvement.
Inspire And Uplift
This is done through giving out praises. A common piece of advice is to praise in public and criticize in private. Your praise must be sincere.
Source: Know, Do, Be
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