Key characteristics:
Know where you are going; understand the big picture; develop an over-arching plan.
Temper this with compassion - recognize your position in the community and address your corporate social responsibility.
Be entrepreneurial - seize opportunities to do business and make money.
Have a desire and drive to succeed - be energized, committed.
Recognize and respect your employees ' strengths, talents and emotional intelligence; look to identify the great leaders .
Be positive, optimistic; overcome setbacks.
Be imaginative, inventive , curious ; what shall we do next ?
Be able to learn from the past, reinvent, regenerate, draw from what is good and discard what doesn't work.
Benchmark, measure and celebrate success.
Network and partner with others.