There is money to be made in the field of leadership and thus leadership is taking on an almost mystical mantle with words such as genuine, authentic and so on. We have strayed far afield from the base definition of leadership: the skill or ability to influence willing followers to achieve a desired result.
Source: LinkedIn Pulse, November 19, 2016.
The Marine Corps taught me that leaders have two responsibilities. One is to accomplish the mission and the other is to care for the people. That still makes sense to me.
INSIGHTS: Every successful, sustainable business runs on metrics. Yet, too often poor performance is masked by warm and fuzzy adjectives. Equally as often, poor people skills are masked by relatively good performance indicators. Effective leadership requires both.