Authenticity is very important for leaders, especially today. People want to know the behind the scenes you is the same as the you on stage. If they do not they won’t believe in you and they certainly won’t want to follow you. It is a result of our information overload society. We have gone from never letting them see you sweat to needing to be vulnerable.

That’s a tough balance to navigate.

Executive recruiter William Vanderbloemen discusses this challenge with ExecuNet’s Tony Vlahos during this excerpt from a session of ExecuNet Master Class.

William has studied 30,000 top leaders and discovered the 12 habits they share that make them as rare as a unicorn – and sought after and chosen, again and again. Listen to this short excerpt from that conversation to learn some tips on being a more authentic leader.