Fundamental Laws & Principles of Successful Leadership: Qualities, attributes, & the essential elements of a True Leader

Leaders in position are often chosen wrongfully.

Ecclesiastes 10:5  Here is an injustice I have seen in the world---an injustice caused by rulers.
Ecclesiastes 10:6  Stupid people are given positions of authority while the rich are ignored. [Good News Bible (GNB)]

Existing leaders who are successful in their present position will find the list below to be reflective of their nature, character, and personality.

From my own experience reading books, publications, discussions and other articles about Leadership, 99% of all authors revolve around in twists and turns explaining certain principles, basic ideas and fundamental laws on how to successfully lead an organization. I believe that by having a simple and direct approach would benefit both the leader and followers as well. Below are short and simple keywords and sentences about the characteristics of successful leadership and the behaviours, attitudes, traits, and key points often sought for in a true leader:

A defender of the rights of other people.
A good leader leads with justice and equality.
A good preparation is half the battle.
A leader demonstrates character values serving as an example to be followed.
A promise made is a promise done.
Ability to accept criticism and to improve and learn from it.
Ability to manage meetings and appointments.
Ability to relate to people from all walks of life.
Ability to resolve disputes.
Ability to screen employees and interview candidates.
Ability to setup organizational systems.
Ability to successfully fundraise.
Able to see the big picture.
Achieve success based on short term goals and persistence towards a long term objective.
Achievement of corporate aims and visions.
Adaptability to any culture. 
Addressing problems, issues, concerns and discrepancies.
Adjustments and fine tuning.
Administrative skills.
Admit errors.
Advices superiors on the best course of action.
All the actions of leaders and followers must reflect the organization's Philosophy and Mission Statement.
Always look out for something that would make the best for the team.
Amiable.
Analyze and weigh down advices from different kinds of people with different backgrounds.
Appreciate and give credit to every good performance.
Approachable.
Appropriate line of thought & action.
Articulate.
Asking for ideas, suggestions, and opinions on how improvements can be made.
Asks everyone if there's any question about the task to be done in order to make sure it's fully understood.
Attainment of company objectives.
Attracts & draws in a crowd, outsiders, and new people.
Awards, rewards, and merits invigorate the followers, the team, and the company itself.
Be clear, concise, and direct.
Be decisive.
Being firm at the right time and place.
Boosts morale.
Builds teams.
Builds relationships based on trust.
Builds strong, useful, and lasting relationships and partnerships.
Celebrate and share success, accomplisments, achievements, milestones, and record-breaking events.
Charisma.
Clarity in describing the job that should be done.
Commitment.
Compassionate.
Conceptual thinking skills.
Confidence.
Consideration of humanity and of the human element.
Considers everyone in the team is important.
Consult for advices, second opinions, third-party point of views, outlooks, and perspectives.
Continual gathering and consideration of ideas.
Continuous education, improvement, and learning.
Coordinate multiple programs and plans.
Coping up well with change.
Corporate responsibility.
Cost analysis.
Courage.
Create an environment free of discrimination.
Credit every success and achievement to everyone in the team.
Critical thinking.
Curiosity.
Data collection on systems and processes.
Delegate authority to others.
Demonstrated and proven excellence in managing yourself.
Demonstrates success.
Dependable.
Determine people's strengths and weaknesses.
Determination.
Develop, implement, and execute an idea.
Diplomacy.
Don't make empty promises.
Duties and responsibilities must be clearly defined and understood.
Earn your respect and trust among your people.
Easy to be with.
Effective leadership is more on serving your people.
Effective organizing of available resources.
Effective planning.
Effective use of management methods and processes.
Efficient management of people's technical expertise.
Efforts leading to the success of the organization.
Emotional maturity.
Employee support.
Encourage your people especially in troubled times, when people losses hope.
Encourages people who rejects new ideas or unwilling to change.
Encouraging people to free up stress and enjoy themselves.
Environment protection.
Envision the organization’s future.
Ethics.
Evaluating.
Exceptional management skills.
Explain clearly every individual's role and participation in every task. 
Fair and sound decision making.
Fairness.
Feedbacks are important points toward improvement and betterment.
Flexible.
Focus on the main and most important things first.
Friendly.
Get the job done.
Giving your people the credit for your successes.
Good leadership principles are practiced in the whole organisation.
Good listener.
Good networking skills.
Harmonious relationship between followers and superiors.
Helping each team member to give and bring out their best efforts.
Helping people achieve a common shared vision.
Honesty.
Human resources and business management.
Identify goals and objectives.
Ignore unfruitful annoyances and disruptions.
Implementation of procedures, methods, and processes.
Initiative.
Inspiring others to lighten up and be happy.
Integrity.
Intellectual curiosity.
Interpersonal relationships strength.
Keen observation.
Keeping promises.
Keeping records and notes.
Know the objectives pointing towards the company's vision.
Knows the limits of individual human capabilities.
Lead people to achieve the organization's vision.
Leaders make things happen.
Leaders must know their strengths and weaknesses and how to best deal with it.
Leadership is mostly about behaviour.
Leadership philosophy is the foundation built upon.
Leading by example.
Learn from other people's success, achievements as well as their mistakes.
Likable.
Listen to both sides of the argument.
Loyalty.
Main priority is to accomplish the task on time and on schedule.
Maintain group harmony.
Makes sure that everyone counts and every member of the team is coordinated.
Making balanced decisions.
Making sure the work is completed on specifications and requirements.
Making sure everyone conforms to policies and regulations.
Making sure everyone knows and feels they have key roles and are crucial part to the success of the group.
Master the skills and strive always for the best.
Monitor progress of employee performance.
Monitoring progress of plans.
Moral code of ethics flows from within the leader.
Moral support and encouragement.
Motivation towards the company.
Must be able to manage self, people, materials, and costs.
Must be able to show good performance even under great pressure, tension or stress.
Must be adaptable.
Must be in excellent physical condition and a champion of physical well-being.
Must have a good grasp of Math.
Must have realistic expectations of the occupation.
Must possess enduring patience and perseverance until the objective is achieved.
Mutual respect.
Never blame anybody in public.
Never underestimate.
Optimism.
Organizational structures management skills.
Organize others towards the completion of tasks.
Orientation of newly hired employees.
Oversee employee productivity.
Participate in activities geared towards improvement and success.
Passion for excellence.
Peaceful.
Performance evaluation and management.
Persistent desire toward the goal.
Persuasive talk.
Placement of the right skills in the right positions at the right time.
Plan carefully and strategically.
Planning even within a limited budget and means. 
Possessing word of honor.
Practical.
Praise, acknowledge, and commend the accomplishments of followers.
Preparedness.
Prioritizing.
Problem solving abilities.
Profitability.
Profitable marketing experience.
Proper allocation of resources.
Properly train and help people to develop their skills and improve their abilities.
Proven convincing power.
Putting the right person for the right job.
Quality performance.
Realistic.
Recommends the best strategy to a specific situation.
Report preparation.
Represent and protect the name and reputation of the organization.
Resilience under hardships, difficulties and troubles.
Respect everyone.
Responsible.
Right timings.
Safe.
Self-confident.
Self-control.
Self-inspiration.
Self-management.
Self-motivation.
Self-organization.
Selfless dedication.
Sensible.
Set goals and targets.
Set standards and procedures.
Show the direction where the team is going.
Showing the best way to achieve a target objective.
Sincerity.
Smile.
Social and community responsibility.
Speak clearly.
Stay open.
Stimulate the group to bring out the best of their efforts and performance.
Strong and effective communication skills and methods.
Strong foundation of leadership principles.
Strong relationship skills with people.
Study people.
Sustainable credit management skills.
Tact.
Take responsibility for the blame and failure of the team.
Takes care of the emotional welfare of employees.
Taking advices from people.
Talented in counseling.
Teach and pass on the knowledge, training, and lessons learned across the organisation.
Team work really works.
Tested capability in management and supervision.
The group must be motivated towards achievement and success.
The leader must know himself fully well.
Think of alternatives and better ways to solve a given problem.
Time Management for Effective Leadership.
Training of personnel.
Triumph over adverse conditions and situations.
Troubleshooting and repair.
True leaders know their own strengths and weaknesses.
Trustworthiness.
Truth.
Understanding and proper channeling of the technical abilities of your men.
Understanding the people, the job, the tools, conditions, and existing circumstances. 
Using positive and right words appropriately.
Well management and control of time.
When a leader makes a mistake, he uses it as a way to improve and an opportunity to be better.
Wisdom.
Works effectively with others.