8 Important Skills that the Leaders of the Future Need

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Are you learning how to become a leader? Or do you want to become a better one?

Harvard Business interviewed eight management thought leaders, who share their ideas on what future leaders will need. In preparing for the future, you must start developing these skills today if you hope to have followers tomorrow.

Below is the list of eight important skills future leaders will need:

  1. Have followers, building and keeping trust in their followers by Angel Cabrera, President of Thunderbird School of Global Management
  2. Understand the importance of character of a leader and the person within a leader by Bill George, Professor at Harvard Business School
  3. Have empathy, become a teacher by Daisy Wademan Dowling, Executive Director of Leadership Development at Morgan Stanley
  4. Be devoted to the interest of others by Andy Zelleke, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
  5. Get into the babit of explaining “why” by Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld, Professor at Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU
  6. Be curious by Evan Wittenberg,Head of Global Leadership Development at Google, Inc.
  7. Become mindful by Dr. Ellen Langer, Professor at Harvard University
  8. Have a clear sense of calling and purpose by Scott Snook, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School

You can benefit from their advice regardless of your career stage, whether you’re a newbie, intermediate worker, senior work, director, VP, or entrepreneur. Take their advice to heart, so you can increase your followers, provide thought leadership, and outline clear directives.

Why not start developing these skills today, so you’ll become a leader of tomorrow.


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