MENTAL PATTERNS SPECIFIC TO PERFORMANCE LEADERS

In Romania, LEADERSHIP is poorly understood, because examples worth noting of the successful companies are not taken into consideration, most times, and they are not even highlighted by mass-media. As several foreign or mixed capital companies imposed a good internal communication that allows the awareness of what the concept of LEADERSHIP really means. The Romanian managers practice leadership without being aware of it. They behave as leaders because of their personality. Following the study based on questionnaire, applied on 51 successful managers and entrepreneurs, and on 71 sellers of products and services, with high results in the teams they are part of, we determined a series of 10 mental, relational and professional patterns, that we named "the success secrets" and they are common to all performance managers, who become leaders by the power of example.