According to ‘TEN – the Home of Leadership’, it’s easy to spot a great leader but much harder to be one. Leadership, it says, is about taking people with you on a journey with a common goal. Effective leaders are good at:

  1. Learning
  2. Strategy
  3. Creativity
  4. Goals
  5. Time
  6. Emotions
  7. Motivation
  8. Change
  9. Communication
  10. Responsibility

 

Margaret Thatcher - maybe a 'two out of ten leader'?

Comment: No wonder it’s difficult to be a great leader. As Margaret Thatcher once said, you can do two – but never three or more – things extremely well simultaneously. And, while it’s well known that women can successfully multitask, it’s asking a lot for men to be able to do that too. Since most would-be leaders in any walk of life are male, it’s incredible that any of them can be accomplished in ten things at once. This only serves to prove the point that it’s easy to spot a great leader but much harder to be one.