Patience is a Leadership Virtue

Strong leadership in any organization requires many virtues: vision, communication skills, project management, empowerment, delegation, coaching skills. One characteristic of effective leaders that you don’t often hear about is patience. Leaders require patience because they deal with people, not machines. Unlike machines, people have many quirks. People are reluctant to change. People develop political alliances and affinities. People have their pet projects, favorite friends and preferred ways of doing things. It takes patience to effectively work with people and accomplish the organization’s goals and objectives. Although there are appropriate times to be impatient and push an agenda, the astute leader knows that patience is very often his or her secret weapon in getting things done. - Kristin Robertson

June, 2004

Another Quote

"I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes." - SARAH TEASDALE