Our creative work makes that easy. Not earth shaking, I know. But when I personally embody these principles, I feel like a leader. And when I discover them in others, I'm ready to follow. Be your best self.
Leaders treat themselves as a leadership resource.
Leadership is personal. The strongest leaders control their own attitude, level of commitment, stress management and personal motivation. When someone is sleep-deprived or engaging in other negative habits, it's difficult to draw on their potential resources, especially in stumping for others to become more receptive to change, work more harmoniously as a team member, take risks to criticize the status quo, etc. What I am essentially trying to communicate is that we spend too much time in viewing problems multi dimensionally trying to see the opportunity in the problem, trying to gain consensus before attempting to solve it and by the time we arrive at a solution the problem has gotten too big. Today's leaders need to kill the problem first, then figure out its ramifications.