{"id":440,"date":"2012-07-20T18:07:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceotucson.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2012-07-20T18:07:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:07:39","slug":"is-there-one-leadership-trait-that-serves-ceos-above-all-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Is There One Leadership Trait That Serves CEO&#8217;s Above All Others?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there one trait that serves others above all others? If yes, what might it be?<\/p>\n<p>In the opinion of Anthony Tjan writing in a Harvard Business Review Blog, that leadership trait is self awareness. Tjan opens his piece by proposing that, &#8220;Without self-awareness, you cannot understand your strengths and weakness, your &#8220;super powers&#8221; versus your &#8220;kryptonite.&#8221; It is self-awareness that allows the best business-builders to walk the tightrope of leadership: projecting conviction while simultaneously remaining humble enough to be open to new ideas and opposing opinions&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tjan concludes as follows.<\/p>\n<p>Self-reflection and its reward of self-awareness cannot be thought of as passive exercises, new era meditation, or soft science. They&#8217;re absolutely essential. There is a reason why in rehabilitation programs the starting point is being aware enough to admit you have a problem. So, too, is the case in business leadership and personal development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/tjan\/2012\/07\/how-leaders-become-self-aware.html\">Read the complete entry here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there one trait that serves others above all others? If yes, what might it be? In the opinion of Anthony Tjan writing in a Harvard Business Review Blog, that leadership trait is self awareness. Tjan opens his piece by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/?p=440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotucson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}