Hi, everyone.
It's Bill at BillBenoist.com.
I have a question for you.
What do you believe makes a good leader?
In this video, I'm going to share with you what 75,000 individuals across the globe have
said to this question, so stay tuned.
When I decided to go back to school and get my master's degree, I was debating as to whether
I wanted to do an MBA program or if I wanted to get my master's in management, and ultimately
what I selected was a master's in leadership.
The reason why I selected leadership was, number one, it was a very cutting edge program.
There wasn't a lot of schools out there that were offering degrees in leadership, but more
so I was really kind of fascinated with the subject.
I was always leading management and leadership books, and I always kind of wondered what
it was that gave the privilege to those authors that called themselves subject matter experts
on leadership.
I had taken leadership classes in undergraduate program for my management degree, and these
were all what I would say Leadership 101 classes.
I was curious what was being taught in Leadership 201.
I remember the first class in the leadership program, the first question that was asked,
what is it that makes a good leader?
I think there was probably just as many answers to that question as there were students in
the class, but there is actually a consensus out there as to what makes a good leader.
That consensus was founded by these two academics, a guy named Jim Kouzes and another one named
Barry Posner.
Now, Kouzes and Posner, they wrote a book called The Leadership Challenge, and if you
get a change, definitely read this book.
It's fascinating.
But what Kouzes and Posner did is they surveyed some 75,000 business and government executives
across the globe, not just the U.S. but across the globe, and what they asked as an open-ended
question, what do you believe are the most admirable traits and values of a leader?
What they came back with was 255 characteristics.
It's just almost like what I was saying with the class that I took, just as many answers.
255 different characteristics as to what individuals were what they saw as admirable characteristics
and values in a leader.
However, upon close analysis they were actually able to take those 255 and combine them down
to 20.
Now they have 20 top characteristics.
Still quite a bit, but what I want to share with you is what the top four were.
The top four characteristics and values that most people, the vast majority of individuals
believe they want to see in a leader.
Number one, honesty.
Number two, forward thinking.
Number three, competent in what they do, and number four, inspirational.
This is what's really cool about that study.
20 years later, Kouzes and Posner did the same thing again, and guess what?
The same results were repeated.
The same top four came out on top of everything else.
Honesty, forward thinking, competency, inspirational.
So, if you're someone who wants to be a leader, if you're honest, if you're forward thinking,
if you're competent, if you're inspirational to your team, is that going to make you a
good leader?
According to 75,000 individuals, yes, it probably would.
But do you know what I believe would make you a good leader right now?
Reading books like The Leadership Challenge.
Back when I was in corporate America, there was something that myself and three other
managers did.
We would get on the phone every Wednesday at lunch time and talk about a leadership
book that we were reading.
We did this for over ten years.
We would select a book, we would agree upon the number of chapters or the number of pages
we would be reading in a week, and then on Wednesday at 12:00 noon, we all got on the
phone for an hour and we talked about what we learned in that book.
We did this for I believe over ten years.
We've all became better leaders for doing that.
See, if you want to become a better leader, yeah, you need to be honest, you need to be
forward thinking, you need to be competent in what you're doing, you need to be inspirational
on your team, and ways to do that is to start reading books and learning how to do that.
In the notes below, I'm actually going to lost the top ten books.
I've read hundreds of them, but I'll list the top ten books that I think made the biggest
impression on me.
I hope you find those a great read, but also if you found this video informative and useful,
make sure that you subscribe to this channel as I do upload a career or leadership strategy
every Tuesday.
Thank you for stopping by, and I will see you in the next video.
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