What do I look for in our leadership? I look for curiosity. I look for competence. I look for humanity. And I look for commitment. To me, those things are very, very important. I like people to enjoy getting out of bed every morning and coming to work. I like them to feel that they’re committed to solving problems and contributing, and that every day they like the people they work with and they’re going to feel a little better about it.
One of the toughest things executives have to learn, as we go up the scale in any organization or want to be considered capable of leadership, is that people within the organization try to analyze what it is that makes us tick. So if we don’t exhibit these characteristics ourselves on a continuous basis, it’s hardly surprising if nobody else does. Because they’re bound to look to us for clues. That’s what leadership’s about. So we have to offer clues and signals in our own behavior that are compatible with what we want the organization to do.
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