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I was talking with Keith Krach, founder of Ariba and self-made billionaire, about the number one trait for successful leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cGuess this trait,\u201d Keith challenged me.<\/p>\n \u201cBe a visionary? A risk taker? Brave? Tough?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo,\u201d Keith said. \u201cTell you what. Envision someone you feel is a good leader.\u201d<\/p>\n I did: a creative director I worked for at Nickelodeon.<\/p>\n (By the way \u2013 you reading this \u2013 yes, YOU. Join along and think of a leader you respect.)<\/p>\n \u201cAre you ready?\u201d asked Keith. \u201cThis trait is: be FUN.\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, fun. It made sense. Employees are more inspired to be productive when they work in a fun work environment \u2013 than in a tough, serious space which operates on fear and stressful internal competition.<\/p>\n Sure enough, my leader from Nickelodeon: fun. Those under-30 billionaires at Google: fun. And Keith? Fun.<\/p>\n (Was your chosen leader fun? Write me and tell me if you want: karen@notsalmon.com)<\/p>\n Two psychological studies at Cornell University support Keith\u2019s theory.<\/strong><\/p>\n #1. People shown a funny movie were afterwards tested and proven to be more capable of creative flexibility and problem solving than those who shown a serious, dark moviie.<\/p>\n #2. Radiologists who received a small fun present before work, made more accurate diagnoses.<\/p>\n Interestingly a huge premise in Jim Collins\u2019 best selling book GOOD TO GREAT is also that great leaders are fun. According to Collins, leaders at the biggest and best companies were consistently shown to be fun, likeable, humble people \u2013 not narcissistic tough tyrants. His theory? Not only were employees more inspired to make a kind, fun boss happy, employees were less afraid to reveal difficulties. As a result this increased communication increased the companies speed at curtailing problems before they spun out of control.<\/p>\n The lesson learned:<\/strong> Create a more fun work environment, and you\u2019ll laugh your way to the bank.<\/p>\n MOST PEOPLE settle for an average life. If you’re not MOST PEOPLE and want to LOVE YOUR LIFE be sure to sign up for my famous and FREE Be Happy Dammit newsletter by clicking this line, right here, right NOW.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Seeking fun, motivational, empowering connections and friends to help you live your happiest life? Join me at my FAN PAGE on FACEBOOK clicking this line right here, RIGHT NOW.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/b> del.icio.us<\/span><\/a> · Slashdot<\/span><\/a> · Digg<\/span><\/a> · Facebook<\/span><\/a> · Technorati<\/span><\/a> · Google<\/span><\/a> · StumbleUpon<\/span><\/a> · Yahoo<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was talking with Keith Krach, founder of Ariba and self-made billionaire, about the number one trait for successful leadership. \u201cGuess this trait,\u201d Keith challenged me. \u201cBe a visionary? A risk taker? Brave? Tough?\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d Keith said. \u201cTell you what. Envision someone you feel is a good leader.\u201d I did: a creative director I worked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}