Managers, directors, and team captains all have a certain quality in common. They are all leaders. As a leader, a person must exhibit several characteristics: honesty, integrity, responsibility, positivity, diligence, open-mindedness, and an ability to inspire others. However, among all these characteristics, only three excel are the most critical: honesty displays a leader’s true personality when difficulties arise, inspirational leaders can raise morale in trying times, open-minded leaders are willing to listen to their subordinates. Firstly, honesty is one of the key characteristics that a leader should have as he begins and continues his important job as a leader. No one wants to follow a leader who avoids the truth. Bill Clinton and
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Leaders do not always have all the answers, and thus should be ready to accept any advice given to them that makes sense. For example, while creating ‘Downton Abbey’, the famous Maggie Smith would invent new ways to shoot a scene. She would ignore the script and explain to the directors that it would make more sense to complete the scene one way than how it was on paper. The directors would take her advice into consideration and then reconstruct the scene. The directors have received many awards since the beginning of ‘Downton Abbey’ and viewers around the world applaud both the directors, actors, and crew for their hard work in putting the drama series together. Another example of open-mindedness comes from Rosa Parks, the African American woman who refused to surrender her seat to a white man. Typically, a bus would be segregated and African Americans were ‘forced’ to seat themselves in designated spots. However, on one particular day, all the white seats were filled and a white man was left standing. The bus driver rebuked Parks for persistently staying in her seat. Parks displayed open mindedness by following in the footsteps of the Civil Rights Movement. She became a leader through her open mindedness and expressed her disappointment, as well as the disappointment of other African Americans, in the American legal and political system. At first, Parks was minding her own business until the bus driver
Leaders do not always have all the answers, and thus should be ready to accept any advice given to them that makes sense. For example, while creating ‘Downton Abbey’, the famous Maggie Smith would invent new ways to shoot a scene. She would ignore the script and explain to the directors that it would make more sense to complete the scene one way than how it was on paper. The directors would take her advice into consideration and then reconstruct the scene. The directors have received many awards since the beginning of ‘Downton Abbey’ and viewers around the world applaud both the directors, actors, and crew for their hard work in putting the drama series together. Another example of open-mindedness comes from Rosa Parks, the African American woman who refused to surrender her seat to a white man. Typically, a bus would be segregated and African Americans were ‘forced’ to seat themselves in designated spots. However, on one particular day, all the white seats were filled and a white man was left standing. The bus driver rebuked Parks for persistently staying in her seat. Parks displayed open mindedness by following in the footsteps of the Civil Rights Movement. She became a leader through her open mindedness and expressed her disappointment, as well as the disappointment of other African Americans, in the American legal and political system. At first, Parks was minding her own business until the bus driver