Authentic Leadership

After over 50 years of more than 1000 studies on leadership and great leaders, no exact model of the perfect leadership has emerged and no clear profile of the ideal leader is established. Regardless, I can tell you with confidence that developing yourself into an authentic leader is a sure bet to win the future.

Who are authentic leaders:

Authentic Leaders are those who demonstrate a passion for their purpose, practice their values with consistency, lead with their hearts and heads, build long-term meaningful relationships, and use self-discipline to achieve results.

To Become an authentic Leader, you do not have to be born with specific characters, nor do you have to be at the top or wait for approval; all you need to do is focus on six critical areas.

Six areas of focus for Authentic Leadership

1. Life stories:

To become an authentic leader, you need to know your authentic self at first, which requires courage and honesty to openly examine your life experiences, especially negative ones such as poverty, loss of a job, personal illness, death of a relative or friend, being discriminated against or rejected by peers. Rather than seeing yourself as a victim, you should use these formative experiences to rise above the challenges and…