Leadership isn’t just what leaders do; it is instead innate to who they are.
Genuine leadership encompasses honesty, integrity and trust-trust built on truth-telling, keeping one’s word, getting feedback on one’s personal behavior and ensuring consistency with one’s states values. That’s how you get others to follow the course you chart.
What are the traits that any person can develop in themselves to become a great leader?
Clarity of focus:
Distinguished leaders exude certainty when faced when three elemental questions:
Where am I going? (My vision for the future) What do I truly believe? (My dearest principles &values) And even Why do I exist? (My larger mission in life)
This all sounds a bit airy-fairy, sure, but answers to these questions are crucial for true self-awareness.
Courage to grow:
It’s very easy to stick with what’s comfortable. But those old ways can also lead to complacent stagnation, thereby stunting one’s progress. Lasting security comes only from change, from learning new abilities in order to adapt as needed. You can’t steal second base with your back foot still on first.
Abiding commitment:
Successful people get energized by their love for what they do because it brings them ever closer to who they are. They overcome apathy and cynicism in the service of a sense of personal discipline that will help them and others in their orbit, achieve their dreams.
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Dr. Robertson is a founding partner and lead appraiser of The Dental Broker Team. A graduate of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto, he has also studied with the Canadian Chartered Business Valuation program. Beyond the scope of appraising and selling practices, he has worked hard to establish solid relationships with executives at the major Canadian banks with whom he has developed the appraisal formulas used by our firm. Because of this dialogue, his reputation, and his grounded research based approach to valuation, he has been called upon by the major Canadian banks to consult on trends, predictions, and perspectives in the Ontario and Canadian dental practice marketplace. He has authored articles on the topic of practice appraisal rationale in Ontario Dentist, The Journal of The Ontario Dental Association, and presented publicly with the Canadian Dental Association on the topic. As a dentist and brokerage partner, he contributed to the development of the Career Options Initiative with the Canadian Dental Association. Dr. Robertson is the author of The Science of Opinion, a research-based paper that establishes the only known evidence-based formula specific to dental practice appraisal value. He is the author of the book, From DEBTistry to Dentistry: A Buyer’s Guide to Successful Transitions.