•  Makes things happen regardless of constraints

• Sets ambitious goals
• Does contextual goal planning
• Demonstrates relentless execution
• Resourcefully overcomes obstacles

•  Has a vision and provides direction

• Thinks into the future
• Energizes vision
• Breaks vision into practicable milestones
• Integrates conflicting/ different visions
• Foresees consequences and accordingly effects vision correction

•  Infective passion and two-way communicator

• Ownership of goals (self and team)
• Help others connect goals
• Active listening
• Inspiring communication
• Negotiation and Persuasiveness
• Personal humility

•  Is decisive and entrepreneurial

• Creativity and innovation
• Intuiting/ sensing the business potential of an idea/ market/ customer need
• Risk taking
• Analysis (and fleshing out of business model)
• Good judgment

•  Continuously strives for excellence and drives change

• Desire to Excel
• Desire to change
• Self-starter
• Efficiency
• Getting others on board
• Continuous learning

•  Is customer focused

• Proactively understands customer needs
• Sets up systems for fulfillment of customer needs and increase customer satisfaction
• Customer communication (both to and from)
• Commitment to quality

•  Is a team player who actively promotes group interests

• Understanding of team/ organizational processes
• Willingness to trade-off personal/ company interest for team/ group
• Creativity in achieving win-win
• Encouraging boundary-less-ness to employees below
• Influencing others
• Organizational savvy
• Relationship building and networking

•  Develops people and teams but takes tough people decisions

• Ability to judge people
• Builds people
• Demonstrates fairness in people decisions
• Differentiates people
• Takes tough people decisions