What are the requirements for leadership? What are the qualities of effective leaders? Which skills make successful leaders? How to be a good leader? Anyone can be an effective leader. One should not be a politician or a CEO to become an effective leader, even a homemaker could be an effective leader. What makes leaders effective is not their positions but their way of thinking, acting, and communicating. On December 13, 2017, news of a 4 years old girl who had received left-handed sharpeners from Hindustan Pencils was trending because her mother, Shweta Singh, shared the story on Facebook. The Facebook post received 25K likes and 11K shares.  The news is mostly presented as a story of good customer service or a generous behavior of the company, but it’s more than that. It’s a story of effective leadership qualities. It has many aspects: You can know how to turn your desire into a reality by studying the problem-solving approach of Shweta Singh. You can know the formula of becoming a successful leader in a niche by studying the factors that made Hindustan Pencils market leader of Indian pencil industry. You can also know the secret of making your posts viral by studying the factors that made Shweta’s Facebook post viral. I interviewed Shweta Singh & Hindustan Pencils in this regard and found that the qualities that enable Shweta Singh to succeed in her endeavor, the qualities that make the Hindustan Pencils market leader, and the qualities that are responsible for making Shweta’s Facebook post viral are not different but the same. These are the qualities that make effective leaders.   To know about the qualities of effective leaders in detail, read my full post here. Take Me to Full Post If you wanna appreciate the effort, please do share: Facebook Twitter Linkedin Google+ Share = Love :-)