What Makes a Good Leader?

I have been fortunate to learn so much over the years of working in a business that started from the ground up. Since retirement back in 2008, I have continued my good fortune of raising my kids, doing non-profit work and having some adventure. Like everyone, I am are sitting at home trying to keep busy. While coming back from my walk I realized these last couple of weeks have been a really good example of what makes a good leader? This can pertain to any type of work…..from management to VP to CEO and yes President. I am not going to get political…but man the examples have been flung all over lately.

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After making mistakes as I grew up in the working world, I learned failure happens. But, failure is a great time to learn, recognize and create a new way of doing things in the future. NO ONE IS PERFECT. Again….NO ONE IS PERFECT! We all make mistakes and we all fail. Now I have always lived with a motto of “Failure is Not an Option.” Most people think I mean if you fail you lose, but that is incorrect. You will fail but learning from that failure and then succeeding is the purpose of that quote.

Now let’s just look around the world today. Our President, as I think we can all agree, believes that he is the smartest person in the room. You can see that via his current live updates on TV. Now he has and is making mistakes…