Willingness To Assume Full Responsibility: The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers. If he tries to shift this responsibility, he will not remainthe leader. If one of his followers makes a mistake and shows himself as incompetent, the leader must consider that it is he who failed.

10. Willingness To Assume Full Responsibility:

Definiteness Of Plans: The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan. A leader who moves by guesswork, without practical, definite plans, is comparable to a ship without a rudder. Sooner or later he will land on the rocks.

5. Definiteness Of Plans:

Self-Control: The man who cannot control himself can never control others. Self-control sets a might example for one's followers, which the more intelligent will emulate

2. Self-Control: 

Mastery Of Detail: Successful leadership calls formastery of details of the leader's position.

9. Mastery Of Detail:

A Pleasing Personality: No slovenly, careless person can become a successful leader. Leadership call for respect. Followers will not respect a leader who does not grade high on all of the factors of a Pleasing Personality.

7. A Pleasing Personality:

Definiteness of Decision: The man who wavers in his decisions shows that he is not sure of himself. He cannot lead others successfully.

4. Definiteness of Decision:

A Keen Sense Of Justice: Without a sense of fairness and justice, no leader can command and retain the respect of his followers.

A Keen Sense Of Justice:

Sympathy And Understanding: The successful leader must be in sympathy with his followers. Moreover, he must understand them and their problems.

8. Sympathy And Understanding: 

The Habit Of Doing More Than Paid For: One of the penalties of leadership is the necessity of willingness, upon the part of the leader, to do more than he requires of his followers.

6. The Habit Of Doing More Than Paid For: 

Unwavering Courage: based upon knowledge of self, and one's occupation. No follower wishes to be dominated by a leader who lacks self-confidence and courage. No intelligent follower will be dominated by such a leader very long.

1. Unwavering Courage:

Cooperation: The successful leader must understand, and apply the principle of cooperative effort and be able to induce his followers to do the same. Leadership calls for POWER and power calls for COOPERATION.

1. Unwavering Courage:

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Based upon knowledge of self, and of one’s occupation. No follower wishes to be dominated by a leader who lacks self-confidence and courage. No intelligent follower will be dominated by such a leader very long.

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