The 38 best qualities of a leader in the modern era
1. The greatest act of leadership is mentorship.
2. If what you learn, achieve, accumulate or accomplish dies with you, then you are a generational failure.
3. Mentorship is the manifestation of the highest level of personal maturity, security and self-confidence.
4. An insecure person will never train people, they will oppress people.
5. Mature people create people greater than themselves.
6. Your mission has a limited duration.
7. You will die one day; so train your replacement.
8. Your best gift in the world is your student.
9. True leaders don’t seek followers, followers are attracted to true leaders.
10. The greatest obligation of true leadership is to transfer your deposit to the next generation.
11. The success of true leadership is measured by the success of your successor.
12. No matter how great you were, if you didn’t produce a successor, you’re a failure.
13. You keep what you have built through the training of your successor.
14. Legacy is about preserving everything you have built by training others.
15. Success without a successor is failure.
16. Leadership that only serves its generation is doomed to failure.
17. If your vision dies with you, you have failed.
18. Legacy is living beyond your grave.
19. Leadership is not a sprint but a relay.
20. The most important part of a relay is passing it, no matter how good a runner you are.
21. The ultimate measure of true leadership is not to maintain followers, but to develop leaders.
22. True leadership measures its success by the decreasing dependency factor of its followers.
23. The ultimate measure of leadership is the ability to leave, give way at the right time.
24. A true leader is becoming smaller and smaller, the system must function normally whether he is present or absent.
25. You are a good leader when your followers can lead others.
26. As a leader, your goal is to remove addiction from the people around you.
27. You are a great leader when your people don’t need you.
28. Make people bigger than you and you will live forever.
29. True leaders do not seek power.
30. True leaders seek accountability.
31. True leaders make themselves increasingly useless.
32. Never confuse your position with your value.
33. The ultimate goal of true leadership is not to maintain followers but to develop leaders.
34. The first act of a true leader is to identify his replacement and begin to guide him.
35. You become great by producing people greater than yourself.
36. When you produce someone bigger than you, don’t be jealous. Take the credit.
37. When you train your replacement, you are free to expand your work.
38. When you lead people, your legacy will make your tombstone useless.
