<p>A very smart man recently told me that being a leader is not about the position or role, but about the action and goal. Great ones set out to make a difference, to inspire greatness in others, and to eventually create more leaders. They show rather than tell. They give credit and take responsibility.</p>
<p>These are the 5 things that great leaders do differently.</p>
<h2>1. Let Go of Control</h2>
<p>Believe it or not, <a title="Leadership 101: Unleashing The Leader Inside You" href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2016/12/leadership-skills-101/">great leaders</a> understand that not everything is in their power. They also know and accept that their knowledge is limited. Even when it comes to tough decisions, the best ones realize that delegating responsibility and empowering others to learn is the smartest trick in the CEO book. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2017/11/5-leadership-rules/" title="Permanent Link: 5 Rules for Being a Great Leader &#8211; Here’s the Short List" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3127,"date":"2017-11-27T11:33:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2020-12-19T01:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:09:10","slug":"5-leadership-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2017\/11\/5-leadership-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Rules for Being a Great Leader &#8211; Here\u2019s the Short List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very smart man recently told me that being a leader is not about the position or role, but about the action and goal. Great ones set out to make a difference, to inspire greatness in others, and to eventually create more leaders. They show rather than tell. They give credit and take responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>These are the 5 things that great leaders do differently.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Let Go of Control<\/h2>\n<p>Believe it or not, <a title=\"Leadership 101: Unleashing The Leader Inside You\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2016\/12\/leadership-skills-101\/\">great leaders<\/a> understand that not everything is in their power. They also know and accept that their knowledge is limited. Even when it comes to tough decisions, the best ones realize that delegating responsibility and empowering others to learn is the smartest trick in the CEO book. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2017\/11\/5-leadership-rules\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: 5 Rules for Being a Great Leader &#8211; Here\u2019s the Short List\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}