What is Your Leadership Quotient

The Leadership Quotient (LQ) is the capacity in which a leader executes tasks without allowing the subconscious mind to interfere or impede the process of attaining tasks and achieving goals expeditiously and confidently. I've identified five top characteristics people with a high leadership quotient possess.

Emotional Fortitude

Effective leaders must be capable of giving and receiving real-time feedback, communicating expectations, and having difficult but necessary conversations.

Courageous Action

Leaders solve problems both preemptively and as they arise. Courageous leaders never depend on anyone to do their job or solve their problems. 

Unconventional Life

"Be yourself everyone else is already taken" ~ Oscar Wilde

Be bold enough to break free of conventional expectations. Being unconventional means knowing yourself, persevering through your fears, and always being your authentic self.

Confidence

Have you ever wondered why certain leaders excel, while others fail? One of the most confident and brilliant minds of our generation, Steve Jobs, had an unshakable resolve and commitment towards achieving excellence. He said, "Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it... Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."

How you respond to life's challenges, speaks volumes about your character.  As a leader your confidence is contagious and it sets both the culture and bar for your team's ability to succeed.

LOVE = Leadership, Optimism, Values, Endurance

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out of fear because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4:18  

When leadership is built on love, obstacles are overcome through love's fruit of optimism, foundations are built solid and secure in love's values, and success is achieved through the strength found in love's endurance. I challenge you to take action and overcome fear through love every day. Successful leadership in both the personal and professional realms is derived from love.

"You have to be burning with an idea, or problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out."

-Steve Jobs

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