Ten critical factors for leading

Warren Bennis has identifyed 10 factors which are critical for successful leadership:

1. Leaders manage the dream
2. Leaders embrace error
3. Leaders encourage reflective backchat
4. Leaders encourage dissent
5. Leaders possess optimism, faith and hope
6. Leaders understand the Pygmalion effect
7. Leaders have ‘a certain touch’
8. Leaders see the long view
9. Leaders understand stakeholder symmetry
10. Leaders create strategic alliances and partnerships

Warren Bennis