Keep up the great writing…

Julie DeLong

Sure, you’re more than welcome to use the article during your interview. Please just provide the reference to your listeners to know who wrote it and where they can locate the English version. You have my permission to translate into Malaysian and post on your blog.

Thank you for the comments and feedback.

It’s a great article. I was searching the net to find articles of great leader and came across your blog. I will be having a radio interview on this subjeck tomorrow and allow me to quote your articles during interview.

I’m Malaysian, soI seek your permission to translate the article into my language and put it in my blog. I will give you the acknowledgement there.

Those are good questions. Yes, we should apply this list to them. I’m not sure if any of the current candidates would embody many of the required characteristics I included in my article. Granted, it’s a hard task to accomplish and few “true leaders” can come close to the ideal, but it seems that with rate exceptions, politicians make too many compromises in order to be liked, elected, and hold on to power. This process, I believe, makes it that much harder for them to come close to the ideal.

The first 2 responses above testify to the accuracy of your opening assertion, “[We] continue to witness a significant shortage of great leaders in many companies and institutions.” I concur.

I’m curious. How would you diagnosis the current lot of presidential candidates? Which candidate best exemplifies your list of characteristics? Can we apply your
list to this office?

As Michael said, it is rare to find any or at least some of these qualities in business executives today. In my experience, most leadership positions are given to those who have garnered favor within certain social circles. Sometimes that post is well earned, sometimes not.

I look foward to seeing the second part as well.

Frmr student 2002

Look forward to Part II. Keep up the good work!