Are you a good leader?

Recently I came across a very interesting article on CIO.com "Questions to Make You a Better Leader". This article talks about several questions you can ask yourself to keep you in-check and ignite the thought process so you can critically assess yourself and make things more clearer.

Here are the questions that were highlighted in that article.

1. What about your work motivates you?
2. What are the challenges facing your department?
3. What can you do to overcome these challenges?
4. How can you help your boss lead more effectively?
5. What are you doing to spread confidence?

I guess these are pretty basic questions, but it makes you think about what you are really doing. These questions are explored in more detail in the original article. And one very important thing mentioned in this article is:

"...all of us can benefit from a trusted associate who challenges us to think by asking good questions, and then pushing us to follow through"

which is very true.