Author Topic: What qualities do you want in a leader? (Read 192 times)

AKIron · « **on:** July 19, 2004, 12:27:31 PM »

I think character and principles are more important than a particular position on any issue. Certainly the position a person takes on any given issue may reveal those principles but doesn't guarantee that person is principled. Should the issue become less popular, an unprincipled person might change their position. A leader should be someone we can count on to make the right decisions in the face of uncertainty.

What do you value?

Dead Man Flying · « **Reply #1 on:** July 19, 2004, 12:35:42 PM »

Leadership requires competence and the ability to follow through on decisions. Remaining steadfast and uncompromising in one's positions does not necessarily represent strong leadership if the leader makes poor decisions based on flawed assumptions or facts. In that situation, an uncompromising attitude works against successful leadership.

Call me a pragmatist, but I expect a successful leader to do everything possible to ensure that the decisionmaking process leads to the correct decision. Should that process fail, a pragmatic leader changes tactics or strategy to account for new information. Staying the course, should that course be the incorrect one, benefits nobody.

-- Todd/Leviathn

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #2 on:** July 19, 2004, 12:41:31 PM »

I'm not sure about any individual qualities, but I'm certain that all of the important ones are captured here:

Nash · « **Reply #3 on:** July 19, 2004, 12:44:14 PM »

What qualities do you want in a leader?

Leadership abilities

ra · « **Reply #4 on:** July 19, 2004, 12:46:49 PM »

A leader should be a blindly ambitious, self-promoting egotist. He should have been dreaming about becoming president since boyhood. An ability to take all sides of an issue is proof a great leadership skills, because it shows him to be a man unafraid to change with events. If a man cannot get himself elected, how can he be expected to lead us to salvation?

Jackal1 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 19, 2004, 12:51:51 PM »

I want a leader that is a smooth operator. One that can silver tongue devil himself into the underpants of the interns so that we can all watch neverending versions of it on TV for months or maybe more while the real issues that need to be dealt with are being ignored.