Poor vs Good vs Great Leaders

As you aspire to become a team leader, manager, director, or business owner having employees, what standard of leadership are you setting yourself up to perform?    Leaders ought to be emotionally stable, display postive behaviours, and have characteristics which followers can trust.  They should inspire belief in the cause and purpose.  This does not mean that they have everything in the package - that's why they need good people around them who can fill the gaps. 

Leaders serve rather than be served.  They do not dominate and subjugate, but enable those with them to become improved as indivudals and participants in teams.  Leaders vision and influence the future, by giving credit for acheivement, and encouraging those they lead to perform at thier best.

Why do people sometimes make bad leaders?  It's because they see the attainment of the leadership position as the end of their journey, rather than the beginning.  Having risen to that platform, they believe primary responsibilities to be making decisions, directing activities and ensuring no one else can rise above them.  Wrong.   Practice at being a leader developer ensures that those who come after are equipped, and have the necessary tools evidenced in ability and character, to achieve even greater things than the leader has their self.

Poor leaders produce problems.  Good leaders produce followers.  Great leaders produce leaders.