Leadership matters! Most people at least implicitly understand this basic concept. People who have studied, and practiced leadership understand it at a deeper level. Developing and selecting individuals for positions of authority is one of the most important responsibilities of today’s leaders.
Source: General Leadership, August 6, 2014. Link.
The ability to be steady and show only positive emotion. Negative emotion is one of the most significant detractors in organizations and in leaders. Attitudes and moods are contagious, none more so than those of a commander or leader. Commanders and leaders have lost the right to have a bad day.
INSIGHTS: In the movie “A League of Their Own,” Tom Hanks had a great line, when at a very dark moment he encouraged his team with, “There is no crying in baseball.” In the same vein, “There is no whining in leadership.”