The most important quality that any successful leader ought to possess is one that people often overlook, because they all too often concentrate on the wrong qualities, which is one of the reasons Africa remains mired in trouble because we go about choosing our leaders all wrong.
The most important quality a leader needs is not charisma, which is vastly overrated, nor is it even the ability to fire people up, although that is very important — the most crucial quality of all successful leaders throughout history, without fail, has always been vision.
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