General Qualities of a Personality for Leadership.
- Personal
Magnetism – For personal Magnetism that Wins People;
- Be Active
- Be Cheerful
- Be Exciting
- Be Brisk
- Be Direct
- Be Fearless
- Poise
– For Poise to make you Master of Situations;
- Think about the other person
- Touch a talisman
- Think twice before talking
- Take slow deep breaths
- Talk your troubles over
- Self-Confidence
– For Self-confidence to Control Others;
- Put long trousers on childhood memories
- Secretly belittle others
- Put your best foot forward
- Put money in the bank regularly
- Optimism
– To have Optimism that Gets Enthusiasm;
- Act optimistically
- Smile – actually laugh
- Like people – even pessimists
- Tactfulness
– For Tact in Smoothing the Way;
- Treat everyone as if they were your superior
- Consider they opinions, whims, prejudices
- Use constructive smile words and phrases
- Swap envy for friendliness
- Progressiveness
– Keeping Progressive for Leading Others
- Mingle with others
- Keep your feelings insensitive
- Be tolerant of others opinions
- Look ahead, think ahead
- Use effort to keep ahead of the times
- Initiative
– For Initiative to get things going;
- Be dissatisfied
- Change your wishbone for a backbone
- Think positively
- Take on more work
- Wean yourself
- Stick-to-itiveness
- Sink your ships
- Change your grip
- Say “no” to yourself
- Use obstacles for steppingstones
- Pretend it is easy
- Power over Time
~ Donald & Eleanor Laird, The Technique of Building Personal Leadership, (1944)