What makes good leadership?

[Maricel Evasco]

What does good leadership entail?

 

 

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
~Henry Kissinger

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.~Marian Anderson

 

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ~Eric Hoffer

 

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
~Warren Bennis

 

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
~Theodore Roosevelt

 

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
~Rosalynn Carter

 

[Quinn]

Before you can lead you have to inspire trust in the people that you want to lead.

In addition I think  you have to be confident, honest, enthusiastic, reliable, and loyal. I also believe there is a certain something, that I can't pinpoint, that  natural leaders have...

[Wendel]

Charisma.  You need that.

[Snagg]

A leader leads by example, not by declaration.

[Apposite]

Leaders are people who are driven by a vision with the ability able to sell it so that others want to see realized as well. Demagogues have this down concept pat.

[CWO3ROBBIE]

Ahh! The lead in refers to "Good" leadership.  That is a much more complex question than "What is leadership"?  Or what does being a leader require.

[Apposite]

Being good "at" leadership is how I interpreted it, regardless of the spin. Leadership is leadership separate from the brand itself, which is subjective anyway. Hitler was great at leadership, the direction is what was amiss.