Leadership comes from within, not as an attachment to a job title. It is a real mistake to link leadership with a job title, to think a leader is necessarily the same thing as a manager. She offered the audience her list of leadership characteristics she said she has consistently observed during her career. Different perspectives, different conclusions. Excellence in one's core competency is essential.
Success demands excellence in one's core competency.
Excellence brings internal rewards, Macal added. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Always be a learner. One thing that I think enables them to do that is a belief that there's always more to learn. Macal told the audience that these are times of profound change in business.