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Mind Tools
Essential skills for your excellent career!

http://www.mindtools.com/

 Each year, MindTools.com helps more than 6,700,000 visitors learn the essential skills they need for an excellent career. Isn’t it time you discovered the secrets of their success?

Leadership 501
Leadership 501 Website

http://www.leadership501.com/five-most-important-leadership-traits/27/

Some people sit and pontificate about whether leaders are made or born. The true leader ignores such arguments and instead concentrates on how to become better at leading people. In this article, we are going to discuss five leadership traits that people look for in a leader. If you are able to increase your skill in these five traits, you will make it easier for people to want to follow you. The less time you have to spend on getting people to follow you, the more time you have to spend refining exactly where you want to go and how to get there.
 

HR World
The Top 10 Leadership Qualities

http://www.hrworld.com/features/top-10-leadership-qualities-031908/

By David Hakala on March 19, 2008
HR World Web Site

Leadership can be defined as one's ability to get others to willingly follow. Every organization needs leaders at every level. Leaders can be found and nurtured if you look for the following character traits.