What’s the most important leadership skill

In the march issue of Entrepreneur, employees were asked what they thought were the most important leadership traits. This will be a two part post.
Here are five traits:
1. Be prepared to do anything you are asking your employees to do;
2.Trust and empowerment; they have to trust you, and you in turn have to empower your employees; interestingly, Zappos has gotten in trouble with its employees because it seems that they weren’t given enough guidance, and maybe they weren’t used to being empowered, because when they were hired, no one said they would operate largely on their own. (We are going to do a post on this);
3. Authentic, vulnerable, bold, resilient, self aware and adaptable ; the authentic tag is interesting, because it means you can just be yourself. Your folks will follow you or not because they believe in you and/or the company.
4. Have a compelling purpose AND be accountable for the results of the individuals and the team you lead; also, the individuals should be responsible for their own results, too; you’re the motivator and the measurer;
5. Be honest and authentic; walk the talk. Admit when you are wrong wrong; praise at every opportunity; share your passion