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but most of those are about management and not actually about leadership.

The three core skills of leadership are simple. The rest are a huge bonus.

  1. know your [synonyms for "team"]'s skills, capabilities, infrastructure, and available resources, apply and connect them where needed.

  2. practice the tone where you are firm and clear, but your voice is not raised. "Yelling without yelling". 2a. repeat important things twice, and before important things, say a phrase that tells them it's important, so they have time to shift to listening.

  3. when the situation deteriorates, or an engagement starts: you give the illusion of being calm. If everyone is panicking, talk in a firm, calm tone. Fake it if you have to by making it look like you are thinking before you say every word.

Your team will follow, and then the rest. Not everyone, sure. But I've been in plenty of high stress, high risk situations, and I've also done a lot of EVE, Planetside, and politics. The most important thing you can do is be calm and drag everyone else with you.

And then once you're no longer panicking, you've got an advantage, because their goal is to have you on the back foot, not able to think.

Where it counts outside of business, leadership isn't about micromanagement. Even in business it shouldn't be. You're giving people the impetus, tools, information, context, and networking required to accomplish a task; under stress, duress, or time pressure.

That's all there is to it. There's more but it's largely in service of being better at those things.

This is not management advice. But it'd probably help there too.


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