One thing that separates quintessential leaders from everyone else is that they initiate engagement with other people – at a relationship level – and they work very hard at being engaged and staying engaged with people at the relationship level, no matter what else they have on their plates.
While many people in leadership positions today talk about the importance of engagement with other people at the relationship level and purport themselves to be examples of that, the reality is that very little of that talk translates into sustained action.
Talk is cheap. Actions speak volumes.
And it is precisely through actions that we can discern whether we are quintessential leaders in the area of engagement with other people. (more…)
The Quintessential Leader 