5 essentials for strong leaders

This is the ability to know one’s emotions, Lynda Chervil says, and also “recognize their impact on others.” Conduct an honest self-assessment to determine your strengths and weaknesses and ask yourself about the root causes of each. “You then need to create a plan that will help you overcome your fears, which are barriers to courage and stand between you and your success,” she says.
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This is defined by Chervil as the controlling or redirecting of one’s disruptive emotions and impulses. In other words, you need to learn to discipline your actions and emotions and understand the importance of adapting to changing circumstances (i.e. you cannot continue the same plan when situational facts have changed).
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