WHAT WERE MARIE CURIE'S LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES?

• intelligence and action-oriented judgement

e.g. her discovery of a new element

• eagerness to accept responsibility

e.g. accepting the teching role of her passed away husbant (Peirre)

• task competence

e.g. experiments towards discovering the new element

• skill in dealing with people

e.g. Red Cross

• capacity to motivate people

e.g. teaching 150 nurses how to use X-ray machines, Red Cross

• courage, persistance and perseverance

e.g. she showed courage, persistance and perseverance in her desire to become a scientist

• decisiveness

e.g. she never gave up to follow her dreams and goals.

• self-confidence/assertiveness

e.g. Marie remained self-confident about her theories, the theories that were doubted by many

• public speaking

e.g. discovery of radium speech