“I can’t call it a “leadership success”, Jeanne: I did not manage to onboard this person.”

This is what a leader admitted to me this morning.
Although I understand this take on it, I still question it; is onboarding every person, every time, supposed to be a requirement for good leaders?

Leadership traits have been discussed in minute detail for years. The common list of indispensable soft-skills usually includes:

• Self-belief
• Ability to listen
• Ability to talk
• Empathy
• Connection
• Vision
• Assertiveness
• Self-awareness
• Accountability
• Truthfulness
• Reliability
• Attention to details
• Authenticity
• Drive

As you may have noticed, none of these qualities seem optional for a leaders.
But my point here is not to challenge what are or aren’t the most important qualities of leadership , and to argue about it.
What is more interesting here is to question what limiting beliefs we nurture around the leader myth.

Here are the 5 most frequent myths I’ve...