Kent Blumberg: Essential Leadership Tools

by Eric D. Brown on January 31, 2007 · View Comments

in Blog, Leadership

Just ran across an interesting post about leadership tools on Kent Blumberg’s blog. Kent lists 15 ‘tools’ that are essential for a leader. In a nutshell, they are:

15 Essential Leadership Tools

1. Strategic vision.
2. Automatic focus.
3. A heart.
4. Input tools
5. A funny bone.
6. The ability to delegate.
7. Curiosity.
8. Financial Intelligence.
9. Planning skills
10. Problem solving skills.
11. Risk management skills
12. An evidence-based approach to new ideas
13. Measurement skills.
14. The ability to know when and how to make decisions.
15. Tenacity

Nothing in the list is ground-breaking but it is good to see things such as “a heart” and “a funny bone” included with the often thought of “strategic vision” leadership trait.

Visit Kent’s blog to read his commentary on each ‘tool’.

[tags] Leadership, Leadership Traits [/tags]

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Written By Eric D. Brown

Eric is a Consultant, Entrepreneur and Doctoral Student focused on helping organizations cross the chasm that exists between Business & IT. Eric writes extensively about technology, strategy, people and projects at http://ericbrown.com. In addition to this blog and his consulting work, Eric is an avid & passionate photographer and writes about photography, shares photographs and reviews products at Photography Minute.
  • Eric,

    Thanks for the link and the kind comments.

    Kent
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