Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

While no two chiefs lead the same way … leaders who transform workplaces … tend to share common traits and teach these to incoming heads.  

Check out 5 Forbe’s top ten business leader traits for common distinctives.

1. Similar focus for all GE leaders, comes from access to the same kind of leadership development emphasis.

2. In-touch capability at Procter and Gamble, requires leaders to possess and develop a social intelligence that understands customers’ needs.

3. Mentoring to lead teach and inspire at Nokia, require top ratings for top leaders – collected from interactions with VPs they mentor several times a year.

4. Achieve color coded ranking at Hindustan Unilever, to rank among the 50 “green” places that bring critical positions of seniority.

5. Multiple skills get coached for a year at Capital One Financial, to hone top leaders’ key strengths from speaking publicly to managing time.

6. Problem solving ability takes the top trait at General Mills, where leaders learn to create innovative solutions to unexpected business problems.

7. Global cross-pollination a required hot skill at McKinsey, sends leaders to work 12 to 24 month stints in two foreign markets.

8. Integration to tackle real life assignments at IBM, strengthens and unifies leadership migration skills across its various companies.

9. Peer relationships valued at BBVA, requires leaders to analyze their capabilities and practices from their co-workers’ perspectives.

10. Worker insights emphasized at Infosys Technologies, trains  leaders of all ages to debate, discuss and critique openly … all aspects of the business.

Top brain based business leaders add smart skill capabilities to develop leadership strengths for left brain solutions, and for right brain solutions. 

What would you add to Forbe’s top ten leader traits?