Eight crucially effective leadership skills

This comes with some research via Google, and a bit more via Harvard and Stanford. Let's see what we can suss out.

Effective leadership skills should be a focus in terms of something organizations try to develop in their people who become managers/leaders -- but, if you've ever had a job, you know often this isn't the case. What matters to most people at most jobs are tasks, deliverables, ROI, KPIs, revenue metrics, CAGR, and the like. No one really cares about effe…