- Create a clear, simple, reality-based, customer-focused vision and be able to communicate it in a straightforward way to all constituencies.
- Understand
accountability and commitment and be decisive; set and meet aggressive targets;
always with unyielding integrity.
- Have
a passion for excellence; hate bureaucracy and all the nonsense that comes with
it.
- Have
the self confidence to empower others and behave in a boundaryless fashion;
believe in and be committed to Work-Out as a means of empowerment; be open to
ideas from anywhere.
- Have,
or have the capacity to develop, global brains and global sensitivity, and be
comfortable building diverse global teams. Stimulate and relish change; do not
be frightened or paralyzed by it. See change as opportunity, not just a threat.
- Have
enormous energy and the ability to energize and invigorate others. Understand
speed as a competitive advantage.
* Derived from the book "29 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch",
by Robert Slater