The Four Leadership Qualities Necessary For Exceptional Leadership.

There are examples of exceptional leadership, all around us, but can you define it? What makes an exceptional leadership, exceptional? It’s certainly not a job title or economic status, so then, what is it?

Aidan Kenealy
4 min readFeb 17, 2020

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To me, exceptional leadership isn’t the sole domain of corporate CEOs and Unicorn founders. Every day we see plenty of examples of exceptional leadership all around us.

Exceptional leadership is the ability foster and develop the love, trust and respect from others neede to inspire them to both listen and follow you anywhere. This definition of exceptional leadership allows us to take a more holistic approach to identify and build out what it takes to be an exceptional leader.

It’s the qualities of a person that endear others to listen and follow, not a title or position of power, and it’s these qualities that are important for leadership. There are four leadership qualities that I feel are the most critical to exceptional leadership above all others, and these are what I’d like to discuss today. As we detail these out, my aim is to demonstrate how these qualities can help you improve your own leadership, regardless of who you are and what…

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Aidan Kenealy
Aidan Kenealy

Written by Aidan Kenealy

Professional startup advisor for founders of high growth startups. More details @ https://aidankenealy.com/

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