On the Kuinua Podcast we recently interviewed Daniel Lee. Daniel has interviewed 220 successful leaders from 37 countries in 6 continents, and identified 30 principles of successful leaders, and is writing the First Time Leadership book. 

Daniel was struggling to isolate a single answer for leadership. Upon reading books the experts were saying things like influence, contribution, collaboration and self awareness. Each expert had a different answer for what leadership was. Daniel thinks everyone has their own version of leadership as every single expert gives a different version but there doesn’t seem to be a universal truth. This is why Dnaiel chose to interview as many leaders as possible in order to decide once and for all what leadership is.

After 21 months Daniel discovered that Leadership isn’t one thing. It is influence, it is self awareness and it is collaboration, these are all correct. Leadership is a mix of all of these aspects. Leadership is a combination of traits.

One day leadership might demand empathy and one day it might demand accountability so it is all about having a toolkit with many different traits in it so that you can address that day’s requirements. Self awareness goes a long way to improving all these traits and towards being aware of who you are as a person and what you need to develop. 

When we spoke to Zach Hofffman later in the year Zach had actually written a book on this called the swiss army knife toolkit. This book  goes over how you can use different traits to be an amazing leader.

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