Great Leaders Know Their Teams

"Trying to stand out,

is impossible unless

you OWN different."

Leadership begins within; it is personal, and thus doesn't have a one-size-fits-all definition. What exists at the core of leadership are two common functionalities: the ability to achieve goals, and the ability to inspire others to do the same along the way.

While all leaders ought to have vision, three elements separate great leaders from the rest: the ability to see beyond what is happening, the imagination to see all that can be achieved, and the vision to know precisely how to navigate their teams and company to reach that unforeseeable goal.

Great leaders operate from an omniscient sense of emotional intelligence, understanding that the key to excellence in performance involves both passion and capability. At the intersection of those two elements, team members will deliver their greatest work. Excellence lives at this specific junction: where the impetus to inspire oneself to her or his highest performance becomes both self-fulfilling and sustainable. The team member feels empowered to do her or his best work, while feeling tremendous satisfaction and value from the work itself.

Therefore, the work of great leaders is to a) lift the entire organization by lifting individual self-esteem and performance, b) create an open environment, where each team member understands both the importance of her or his contributions and those of her or his fellow team members, and c) match the capabilities and output of the entire organization to the myriad challenges and opportunities that stand between where the organization is today, and where it can be tomorrow.

Great leaders not only envision goals; they achieve by bringing others into the clarity of that vision. Leaders inspire others toward mutually beneficial, successful outcomes through clarity and focus on how to best get projects done. They intuitively know that everyone wins together, and make sure that mutual wins occur every time.

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