Hidden Side of Leadership

Intelligence, Self-confidence, presence, the ability to communicate, and having a vision are important. But being highly intelligent doesn't mean that a person has the knack for making good business judgments. 

How many times have you seen people confidently making decisions that turn out to be disastrous? How often have you heard a vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric and hot air?

Personal attributes are just one small slice of the leadership pie and their value is greatly diminished without knowhow, the eight interrelated skills that bring leadership into the realm of profit and loss.We need leaders who know what they are doing. Change is always with us, but its current magnitude, speed and depth is unlike what most readers have experienced in their lifetime.