While there are many characteristics of good leaders, curiosity is an essential trait. At its core, curiosity communicates your general interest to know or learn something, and it has served influential leaders well over the centuries. Consider Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and their inquisitive nature. They asked questions and explored diverse ways of doing things that challenged traditional thinking and created action that fueled progress. When we think of the potential impact and outcomes of curiosity, we begin to see its power and how it can serve us as leaders.