{"id":340,"date":"2021-06-08T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/?p=340"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:21:35","slug":"leadership-lessons-nature-or-nurture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/2021\/06\/08\/leadership-lessons-nature-or-nurture\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Lessons: Nature or Nurture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leadership is<\/strong> not preordained. It is not a gene, a trait or a computer chip in our brain at birth. The age-old question asks: Are leaders born or are they made? Well, we are all born, but none of us is born a lawyer, a professor, a doctor or a CEO. Leadership can be learned. There is evidence that those who enroll in leadership programs can be taught leadership skills.<\/p>\n<h2>Top Leadership Characteristics<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Credibility<\/strong> is the foundation of leadership; without credibility, leading is impossible.<br \/>\n<strong>Courage<\/strong> is required to make the difficult decisions.<br \/>\n<strong>Good Temperament<\/strong> is essential to lead through difficult and tense times.<br \/>\n<strong>Optimism<\/strong> is critical in leading a team.<br \/>\n<strong>Passion<\/strong> is essential in getting others to believe in your plan.<br \/>\n<strong>Vision<\/strong> is important as leaders are truly custodians of the future.<br \/>\n<strong>Technical Competency<\/strong> is necessary, but not sufficient.<br \/>\n<strong>Strength<\/strong> is required when strategic initiatives begin to fail.<br \/>\n<strong>Risk Tolerance<\/strong> is as an essential trait as leaders will take risks to progress.<br \/>\n<strong>Action<\/strong> is critical as words alone won\u2019t get it done. Leaders \u201cdo!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A turnaround expert offers his take on how leaders are formed \u2014 and what makes them tick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4550,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership","category-spring-2021","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/inthelead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}