Leadership is so important to a just start-up company. Since a small company doesn't have many people, and those people always responsible for multi-tasks, leaders should know how to engage people with their responsibilities. How to motivate people, how to make them aware of the company's strategy, and how to communicate with them to get complex tasks done are all important to the leader.
If I were the leader, I will affect people around me primarily by my professional knowledge. I can help my group members or subordinates with their questions and give them guidance with the problems they have met. With the knowledge I've got, I can bring the company to a higher stage and become more competitive against other players in the market. Therefore, I will gradually get authority and become credibility with my field. Eventually, I as a leader will gain respect and admiration from my team members, hopefully.
Being charismatic is also important for a leader I think. Charisma to me is how a leader can easily affect people around him or her. Team members are happy to be influenced and easily agree to what the team leader suggest. For me, I would like to gain my charisma with being one of my team members. I would like to position myself as one of them and influence them with my own action. Therefore, after seeing my action, such as working as long as others do, focusing on details and making sure they are aligned with company's strategy, people around me will also be influenced and as time goes by as well as more and more people are doing and thinking the same way, it can potentially become the culture of company.
