How to Be a Great Leader — 5 Insights From Research | TIME
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- Studies have shown the traits that correlated most powerfully with CEO success as well as the most common failures of bad leaders. Avoid extremes of assertiveness or passivity. The best leaders are supportive, not controlling,even in the military. Find a balance between tough and nice. Your leadership style must adapt to the environment around you.
- Understand what things really motivate people. (No, not money.) What’s the #1 motivator? Progress. Definitely progress. Want your employees to perform better? It can be as easy as believing they are smarter than average and having high expectations. (Expecting people to be selfish can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.) Money and feedback work best as incentives when combined with acknowledgement of an employee’s accomplishments. You can give a quick boost to employee motvation byreminding people why their job is important. When all else fails, yes,nagging works.
7:01 AM Dec 05 2014