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It is mindset and beliefs, as much as skills, which differentiate great leaders from merely good managers.
Leadership reference guides give you a framework for observing and learning from the experiences you go through. The structure takes some of the randomness out of random experience and lets you learn faster and better than your peers: this is your guide to accelerated leadership.
These handbooks are to be used to create your own leadership DNA. Ideal leadership is always inferior to practical leadership: what works for you where you are. The handbooks only succeed if you use them as an active tool.
Effective leaders are keenly aware of what they are good at and what they are not good at.
It takes great self-confidence, self-awareness and humility to admit to not being good at things. But that is the critical first step towards doing something about it.
High self-awareness allows a leader to focus on his or her signature strengths. Just as we all have weaknesses, we all have strengths. The trick is to know what you are uniquely good at doing, and then do more of it.
Deal with weaknesses by building a team and delegating.
Highly self-aware leaders are acutely aware of others and see themselves through the eyes of other people. Managers with low self-awareness only see their world through their own warped eyes.
Source: Jo Owen: “The Leadership Skills Handbook: 50 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader”