The Unifying Theme of Strong Leadership - Matt Norman

The best leaders that I have worked with nearly always have fundamental principles that drive the many decisions they have to make. Principles. Frameworks. Identity. There are a lot of ways to describe this, but I believe it is foundational to leadership. It is very hard to lead if you are inconsistent. I like how Norman presents this characteristic in this article. It takes years, perhaps decades, to build but intentionally doing so is critical. Books like Jim Loehr's Leading with Character with the 180-day journaling exercise are also good ways to work on this.