Leadership

Leadership

I have recently been reading and listening to The Laws of Success by Napoleon Hill. On one of his CD disks Mr. Hill talks about the key qualities of a great leader. The world will always need great leaders and there are never enough of them around. If you have been working for any length of time you have probably worked for some bad supervisors, good supervisors, average supervisors and downright bad supervisors. The scary part is how much power these managers have over those employees that they supervise. Many who are promoted to the level of manager or supervisor are not leaders. They may know how to boss people around and how to send in the correct paperwork to their superiors. They may hold their positions for many years but once again they are not leaders. Their department’s performance may be adequate or satisfactory but it will rarely be great.

A leader has the ability to create a positive, enthusiastic working environment for their employees. Some supervisors are so successful in this area that their employees actually love coming to work. In future posts I will write about how these exceptional leaders are able to produce this kind of positive working environment.