To Become A Leader, Then, You Must

Leaders Must Earn The Trust Of Their Teams, Their Organizations, And Their Stakeholders Before Attempting To Engage Their Support.

This Is More Than Just Having A Vision. You Can See The Difference In The Often-cited Way In Which Steve Jobs Brought In John Sculley To Take Over Apple. At The Time, Sculley Was Destined To Be The Head Of Pepsico. The Clincher Came When Jobs Asked Him, "how Many More Years Of Your Life Do You Want To Spend Making Colored Water When You Can Have An Opportunity To Come Here And Change The World?"

A Leader Is Someone Whose Actions Have The Most Profound Consequences On Other People's Lives, For Better Or Worse, Sometime Forever And Ever.

Trust Resides Squarely Between Faith And Doubt.

Emotional Intelligence, More Than Any Other Factor, More Than I.q. Or Expertise, Accounts For 85% To 90% Of Success At Work... I.q. Is A Threshold Competence. You Need It, But It Doesn't Make You A Star. Emotional Intelligence Can.