Daniel Assouline is an Honest and Sincere Leader

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• Daniel Assouline is an Honest and Sincere Leader

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• Whether leaders are born or develop leadership
  skills along the way has been a subject of
  intense debate since long. True leaders, however,
  do not waste their time and energy on such
  arguments and instead utilize the resources at
  their command to further hone their leadership
  qualities.
• Daniel Assouline, the former CEO of Montreal,
  Canada based e-commerce solution provider
  UpClick.com, is a leader who has all the
  leadership qualities that make it easier for
  people to follow him by their own free will.

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• A truly inspirational personality, Daniel is
  honest, hard working, intelligent, compassionate,
  and trustworthy leader.
• In the following section, we shall look at some
  of the very important qualities that make a
  natural born leader. This is important as having
  people follow a leader is certainly much better
  than a leader devising ways and means of having
  the people follow him.

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A Leader has to be Honest

• People will only wish to follow you, if they
  believe that you are honest and have their best
  interests in mind. Earlier, it was understood
  that a leader by virtue of his position will be
  honest.
• A host of financial scandals that rocked the
  corporate world dispelled that notion faster than
  mist in a rising sun. People started looking at
  corporate and CEOs with heightened suspicion.

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• This has given rise to a new and somewhat
  peculiar situation. Earlier, it was assumed that
  a leader is honest, but now it is the other way
  round. You are presumed dishonest unless you
  prove otherwise. People will not take you to be
  an epitome of virtue just because you have never
  been caught with your hands in the cookie jar.
• Modern organizations function in an increasingly
  complex business environment. Leaders as such are
  under added pressure to deliver. Leaders are
  human beings too and as such are not infallible.
  Mistakes are bound to happen and an honest leader
  will never shy away from taking responsibilities
  for his action.

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• Daniel Assouline is a proactive leader who always
  walks the talk and takes full responsibilities
  for his ideas and actions. He is always on the
  lookout for new and innovative ways of doing
  things.
• There is no doubt that certain ideas under
  certain circumstances and conditions will not be
  as successful as were initially intended. This is
  where the real test of honesty comes up.
• Some leaders do not admit that the idea that
  failed to generate the desired result was their
  own, while others, for the fear of failure, just
  sit back and let things happen rather than make
  things happen.

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 Quality Leaders Think Ahead of Time

• A chance of a modern organization succeeding in
  the marketplace when being lead by a leader who
  is not forward thinking is almost negligible.
  Successful leaders know their present but never
  fail to take the future into consideration.
• Leadership in modern business context is all
  about knowing where you are now and where you
  wish to be. Leaders must possess the ability to
  know where to go from where they are now.

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• You must have sound communication skills to
  actively communicate your plans for the present
  as well as future to your employees. What you
  intend to do will matter little, if you fail to
  enlist active help and cooperation of all those
  around you.
• Under most circumstances, people are not much
  enthusiastic about giving their wholehearted
  support for the cause if they think that their
  leader lacks vision or is too afraid to share his
  vision with them.
• It is often seen that leaders who lack vision are
  the ones who do not have enough time on their
  hand. They are so busy with the present that they
  really do not have time to think about tomorrow.

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• The fact then can be simply deduced that leaders,
  who do not have time to think and plan for the
  future, are doing a very poor job of leading in
  the present.
• Failure to build a team that can work on its own
  with minimum of input from the top can be the
  chief cause of the leader always running short of
  time. Employees, who lack the belief and
  confidence to do anything on their own, will
  always be looking towards their leader for advice
  and problem solving.
• Daniel Assouline, the former chairman and
  co-founder of UpClick, is a leader with strong
  vision for the future and a strong plan for going
  forward. He is a leader who possesses strong
  communication skills to effectively and
  efficiently communicate his vision and plan for
  the future to his employees.

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Good Leaders Must Lead by Example

• Leaders, who do not lead by example, do not
  inspire confidence in their abilities. They fail
  to motivate their employees to give their best
  for the organization.
• Daniel Assouline is a leader whose action and an
  impeccable record inspires tremendous confidence
  in his abilities. His subordinates know that what
  he preaches is not in any way different from what
  he practices.