Top 5 Rules to Lead By 

FROM: JUL-AUG 2009 ISSUE

The essential rules of great leadership are even more important during a recession. According to the authors of Leadership Code: 5 Rules to Lead By, there are five rules that effective leaders must live by in order to be successful.

1. Leaders must invest in themselves – physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. They learn constantly.
2. Good leaders know how to be strategists, test big ideas pragmatically, and work with others to move from the present to the desired future.
3. Effective leaders are executors. They understand how to make change happen.
4. Leaders are talent managers and engage people to get things done now in a manner that generates loyalty.
5. Leaders are human capital developers who build the next generation.

Source – BusinessWeek