What are the Characteristics of a Leader?

Characteristics of a Leader:

1. He should be innovative and creative
2. He should be original i.e. he should take initiative.
3. He should have good communication skills.
4. He should have decision-making skills.
5. He should have good human relation skills.
6. He should have conceptual skills.
7. He should be able to focus on people.
8. He should be an inspire i.e. he should have motivation skill.
9. H should have long-range perspective.
10. He should be able to develop his follower so that they can take initiative, which generates a sense of self-involvement, which is very much necessary in management.
11. He should always have his eye on the vision.
12. He should always be ready to accept interruptible challenges.
13. Leader is not like a soldier; he is a person in himself. He leads, everyone follows.
14. Intelligence academic achievement.
15. Social maturity
16. Self-motivation and an achievement orientation.
17. A wide range of interests.

The character of a leader is not one-dimensional: compromises  spectrum of traits that include integrity and compassion in the yogic psychology.  The trait of compassion is found at the fourth chakra, the subtle energy center of the heart.

Leaders who are attached to third chakra the center of ambition and the will to power are unrealized as leaders dictators such as Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin are deluded by dreams of glory.  Those who have evolved to the higher fourth chakra will exhibit compassionate unity with their followers.

Leaders construct and define their own value system, and they proceed with morality toward noble goals.

In the final analysis good intentions are not enough.  The quality of leadership should be judged also on the quality of the outcome or consequences of the leader’s actions and they must maintains moral symmetry as the deal with various stakeholders.  Organizational and political success correlates significantly with fitness of character, thought.  Great leaders are moral; they operate from a deep ethical platform that considers values such as justice and goodness, to be the guiding principle for organization decisions.