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Leadership challenges are more complex today than ever before, and one leadership challenge that I see as an executive coach is the tendency to anticipate what might happen tomorrow while forgetting about what is happening today. In other words, leaders try to outthink and overanalyze the future. They anticipate all the possibilities that could happen, select the outcome most likely to occur and then mold their leadership style to accommodate it, only to find that Murphy has a full-time job and is apparently dedicated solely to them — and Murphy wins.The point is, tomorrow, next week or next year are all uncertain, so if you try to mold your leadership style to the “most likely” option to occur, then you’re not leading, you’re contingency planning.
Leaders don’t just think about the future, they think in it. Once they have a clear picture of what they want to see, where they want to be—as an individual or as a team — and why, they begin to mold the world around them to achieve it.
Via The Learning Factor
You never really know the type of leader you need to be. You may have an idea of how you want to lead but as situations change and reality unfolds, you begin to see that who you aspired to be and what you hoped to do don’t actually fit.
You never really know the type of leader you need to be. You may have an idea of how you want to lead but as situations change and reality unfolds, you begin to see that who you aspired to be and what you hoped to do don’t actually fit.