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Article: Answering your questions on effective leadership, and improving communication skills.
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- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Effective leadership traits
Q How does someone become an effective leader?
A While management focuses on directing an enterprise on a daily basis, effective leadership revolves around vision, direction, and change. Most authorities agree that leaders are made, not born, and that most people have the capacity for leadership. In other words, people are able to develop those characteristics that make others want to follow them.
One theory points to certain personal characteristics, traits, and motives that contribute to effective leadership. While these may increase the probability that a leader will be effective, they do not guarantee ...