Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It: Why People Demand it

Global Leadership and Local Variations

Context matters, and the external environment may influence what people look for and admire in a leader at any given moment or in any specific organization or location. Not that any shifting winds will push people away from seeking leaders who are at their core honest, forward-looking, inspiring, and competent. Over time and across organizations, these four qualities remain the prerequisites to developing yourself as an all-around leader. Yet to be a leader, you must also learn to adapt to and shape your local surroundings. Expectations can vary from organization to organization, function to function, group to group, level to level.

For example, in one particular organization we surveyed, supportive was ...