Taking Your Leadership To Your Next Level

Leadership is about growth. As a leader, if you are not growing, you are not leading. You are not learning. You are not challenging yourself. And your people are not going to grow.

Because you are not moving forward. If you want to lead, you must learn. And you must encourage your people to do the same.

According to Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams, ‘Self-leadership is the lifelong stance of continually focusing on a desired future and- in the midst of the current realities of our lives and organizations- taking action (individually and with others) to bring that vision into being.’

‘A business cannot outgrow the effectiveness of its leadership!’

‘Ineffective leadership caps the ability of an organization to grow, and this liability is exposed the minute you start to scale. Leadership that works at one level of scale is likely to run into serious limitations at the next level.’

‘Scale can only be achieved by developing capacity and capability in others. Effective leaders develop others.’

‘We need to shift from knowing to learning and from controlling to empowering.’

‘The organization cannot perform at a level higher than the collective effectiveness of the top leadership group.’

‘Leaders have a moral obligation to get good with people at scale. When you step into or are thrust into leadership, you are in the people business!’

‘You don’t lead results- you lead people to get results.’ The higher you go in an organization, the more you need to excel in relationships at scale.’

‘Regardless of what natural leadership traits you bring to the table, your leadership ability can and should be developed.’

‘Change and transformation are only worth the effort if there is something more or higher to gain or to create for which our current level of leadership is too small.’

Source:

Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams (2019). Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most