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Edited from Lifestorming by Marshall Goldsmith and Alan Weiss
Most of us think of leaders as people of character. They aren’t people who live vicariously through others, but people who live their own lives and lead by example.
What exactly do we mean by character? Character evolves; circumstances change; what worked in one situation is unsuccessful in another. We take our definition from Robespierre, who claimed that, “No man can step outside the shadow of his own character.” And we add to it that we believe the shadow changes because of our growth and the angle of the light.
Here are six elements of what we’ve come to call character:
Now for the test.
Rate yourself on a one-to-five scale on our six elements. Ratings are follows.
Score
We’re not asking you to total these elements because the point is to raise each of them to the maximum level. There is no total score above which you are fine if any of the individual ones are low. Our feeling is that a 4 or 5 is needed in each element. Which, if any, are your weak points?
To build character, you need to build these six elements. To evolve character, you need to evolve these elements. Our recommendations:
Note 1: Stumbling on Happiness, Knopf, 2007
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