5 tips for a good leader

5 tips for a good leader
The art of leading

Interpersonal Influence

Andrew J. DuBrin, a famous author, considers that interpersonal influence based on direct communication skills is the most common used technique, in order to become a true leader. The art of influencing peoples by using persuasion or a personal example is much cherished. This has a lot of potential particularly on long term, because it helps consolidating a powerful bond between the leader and his team of followers.

Build Trust

The main dynamic force that motivates and coordinates the organization is trust and the ability of succeeding must be also based on cooperation and understanding. A good leader should posses the ability of inspiring trust and support towards people, actions needed to complete the offered tasks.

Ethics and moral rules

G. A. Cole thinks that leading is a dynamic process that involves work-groups and the decisions are belonging to the leader for a predetermined period of time. That is why is so important to obey a set of moral and ethic rules. The leader is a social architect to build the team so he should create a social universe based on correctitude and transparency. In the end he will certainly benefit of several advantages if that policy is used. The people will be more confident in his ability of succeeding and proud to follow the purposes with ethics.

Influnece of personality

W. Bennis defines other 3 main characteristics that are defining an excellent leader: attention, confidence and open-mind. By completing the model, some theoreticians like Professor F. Fiedler from the University of Washington are convinced that personality plays a major contribution in the game of leading. In their opinion attention, confidence and open-mind are typically born -with attributes, influenced only by native personality.

Goal setting

Bill Cosby considered that the secret of success is unknown, but failure might appear when a leader is trying to negotiate with different sides. It's clear that a straight set of directions must be kept because changing sides might be unfavorable in the future. That is also true according to John P Kotter (in his book called "What Leaders really do") all the characteristics possessed by a leader should be melted with the primary objective, typical for a certain situation.


When those five attributes are united is very likely to obtain success but only if you really want that to happen, and you work hard in order to achieve the goals. Always remember that a leader's secret is to have no secrets at all.

Some Sources:

1.Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior, DuBrin, Andrew J.
2.10 Minute Guide to Leadership, DuBrin, Andrew J.
3. Organisational Behaviour Author: G.A. Cole ISBN: 0826453872
4. The Book of Leadership Wisdom Author: Andrew S. Grove, Bill Gates, Michael D. Eisner, and more also Bill Cosby(edited by Peter Krass) - This guide gives simple and practical help for busy people who need to be the kind of strong leader who can guide a team towards success.