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wherever you are leaders are important
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whether it's to lead powerful
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organizations or just to make sure a
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group of friends are having a good time
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here are the seven traits that all great
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leaders possess number one they radiate
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positive energy there is nothing more
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important in a team than passion and the
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will to succeed and having a positive
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leader is an important part of
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that sometimes I sign on to Facebook and
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I see these status updates that just
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reeks of
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negativity these people are not good
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leaders and more often than not they are
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not very successful either great leaders
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radiate positive energy not only does
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that make them more likable leading to
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more trust it also boosts the team's
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morale and countless Studies have shown
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a positive relationship between team
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morale and
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productivity number two they have a
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proactive attitude when something goes
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wrong it's easy to blame someone else or
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to find out why it happened immediately
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the great leaders put that aside they
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shift their focus entirely on solving
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the
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problem I used to be in charge of the
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takeout service at the restaurant I
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worked at so basically people would call
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to make their order and my job is to
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make sure everything is packed and given
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to the right person it was a really busy
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restaurant so mistakes weren't that
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uncommon this one time after a customer
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came to pick up his food I realized that
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we forgot to pack part of his order I
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was fairly new at the time and I didn't
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know what to do but luckily one of the
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owners of the restaurant was there so I
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explained to him what
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happened he didn't blame me he didn't
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even ask how it happened instead he told
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me to call the customer apologize for
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what happened and then tell him that we
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will personally deliver the missing part
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of his order to his
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house at the end of the day the owner
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sat down with me to talk about how we
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can prevent something like this from
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happening again but he did it at the end
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of the day not when the problem was
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still
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unresolved great leaders know what to
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focus on at any given point in time they
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are
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proactive number three they delegate
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tasks
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completely great leaders realize that
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they can't do everything themselves so
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they focus on the most difficult ult
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tasks and delegates the rest to
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others let's say you make more than $30
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an hour yet every week you still spend
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several hours cleaning your house and
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doing the laundry considering a maid
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costs around $30 an hour you might
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decide it's worthwhile to hire one to do
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your housework for you when I first
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started delegating my work to others I
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was hesitant because I knew that I could
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probably do a better job than the person
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I'm assigning it to for example a maid
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might put your clothes in the wrong
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drawer every once in a while but you
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should still hire her because the extra
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time you get to work on more valuable
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tasks generally outweighs the
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negatives delegating also means fully
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trusting your team to do the task
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without micromanaging their every move
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great leaders delegate tasks to others
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and trust them to get the job done
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number four they are
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approachable a great leader is one who
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their teammates could see themselves
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approaching whenever they have a concern
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or when they simply need someone to
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discuss things to when Sam Walton opened
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over a dozen Walmart stores he was still
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available to privately talk to any one
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of his thousands of employees was this
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the reason Sam W was so successful we
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can't say for sure but he is a prime
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example of someone who's approachable
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and it so happens he's also one of the
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most notable leaders in the last three
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decades there is a saying that's very
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appropriate in the situation and that is
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a non productive work environment is one
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where employees are discouraged to speak
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up fearing the loss of their jobs great
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leaders encourage feedback from all
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members of the organization they are
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approachable number five they do what
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they expect of others if you expect your
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team to work hard and produce great
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results you're going to have to do the
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same when I was a kid I worked at
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Wendy's the fast food restaurant there
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were two managers there Maria and
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Francis Maria was very good at telling
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us what to do but she would always be in
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her office talking on the phone with her
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boyfriend we listened to her but none of
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us really respected her and that is
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because she doesn't place the same
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expectations for herself as she does for
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us Francis on the other hand was
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different he didn't have a lot of
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leadership traits in fact he even had
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trouble telling us what to do but the
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one thing he did have was he pulled his
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own weight when it was busy he would
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grab the spatula and start flipping
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burgers alongside us as a result he
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gained the respect of everyone whenever
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he was our manager we worked hard
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because we wanted to for
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Francis a great leader sets an example
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and as a result gains the respect of his
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or her entire
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team number six they are
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accountable your team's mistakes are
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your mistakes because you are their
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leader remember the restaurant example
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when we left out part of the customer's
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order the owner and I personally went to
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deliver what we
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missed imagine the owner of a restaurant
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coming to your doorstep to apologize for
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their mistake that is unheard of and yet
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that is exactly the level of
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accountability great leaders practice
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all the
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time it's not just about responsibility
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it's about taking the next step to make
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things right
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great leaders are
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accountable and lastly they are
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decisive a lot of times leaders have to
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make decisions that they are not sure of
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but once they have enough evidence to
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suggest making that decision they stick
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with it and they do it with
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confidence imagine that you are the
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commander of an army and you have to
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make the decision whether to enter the
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enemy territory from the North or from
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the West there's no information as to
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which one makes more sense
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but you will still have to choose
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because without you their leader half of
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your army might decide to invade from
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the north and half from the west and
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some might even call it quits and
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Retreat Therefore your job as a leader
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isn't to always make the right decision
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but it's to make a decision in order to
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keep the team together wrong decisions
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could be fixed but a scattered team is a
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recipe for disaster great leaders are
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decisive and confident in their
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decisions I hope these tips help you
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become a better leader and as always I
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