Discovering Your Authentic Leadership

This from the February 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review..

"Leaders cannot succeed on their own: even the most outwardly confident executives need support and advice. Without strong relationships to provide perspective, it is very easy to lose your way.

Authentic leaders build extraordinary support teams to help them stay on course. Those teams counsel them in times of uncertainty, help them in times of difficulty, and celebrate with them in times of success. After their hardest days, leaders find comfort in being with people on whom they can rely so they can be open and vulnerable. During the low points they cherish the friends who appreciate them for who they are, not what they are."

Authentic leaders make an impact!