What about the ability to … maintain relaxed control amid overwhelming amounts of incoming stuff, define doable projects from ambiguous direction, initiatives, and pressures, decide actions required when things show up versus when they blow up, regroup, recalibrate priorities, and regain balance rapidly with new information and changing circumstances, be alone, in cooperation with everyone else, renegotiate implicit and explicit agreements with themselves and others, express and consider any ideas, including bad ones, in front of their staff and then evaluate them objectively, refocus rapidly
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