Tag: Vulnerability

RecruitTheBest Daily Digest- Learning To Lead From The Inside Out

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Truly being able to listen to others and actually hear what they’re saying, and being able to reconcile different suggestions and ideas and then combine them in a ‘best of the best’ thinking approach, is a key skill for leaders.’

‘The best leaders develop a sense of true belonging by convincing themselves that they are indeed the right person for the job even if they’re harboring some insecurities. They find the courage to overcome their lack of confidence by figuring out what’s keeping them back and confronting it.’

‘Being able to go beyond your own sense of self to achieve what is best for the team, the organization, and the world around you is critical to being successful- this is the ultimate definition of selfless leadership.’

‘Being vulnerable means you are in touch with what triggers your emotions and know how to direct those feelings into positive energy. You are willling to be touched, moved, and influenced by others and at the same time to share your hopes, fears, and concerns in a way that invites support from others. … Being vulnerable also means knowing how to deal with failure.’

‘Picking a few areas that are most important for you and your organization and going deep is a practice that leaders have to learn. A realization that you are not the smartest person on all topics is foundational for continual learning.’

‘The best leaders are not only good listeners but flexible enough to see when following the cause starts exacting too high a price on their employees.’

‘The best leaders encourage their people to understand their why and then give them the space to decide how it applies to their work.’

‘The best leaders create a system that allows the organization to evaluate bold moves from all angles, then test them out to recognize which of them show the most promise.’

‘The best leaders find the right balance between control and letting people have the agency to take the initiative and inevitably make some moves.’

‘The best leaders build and leverage informal networks of truth tellers who keep them grounded in reality and help them understand how their people really feel. They lead to inspire, not to direct, they foster a culture of dissent by actively seeking it, and welcome open discussion when it comes.’

‘Business leaders too often stick to the patterns and plans that made them successful and fail to change when circumstances shift.’

Source:

Dana Maor; Hans-Werner Kaas; Kurt Strovink; Ramesh Srinivasan (2024). The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out

Managing Your Blindspots

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Blindspot: An unrecognized weakness of threat that has the potential to undermine a leader’s success.’

‘People who are smart and self-assured are often very skillful at justifying their thinking and behavior- to the point of being in denial about their weaknesses and the threats they face.’

‘Mistakes are the royal road to understanding blindspots, particularly when repeated over time and in different situations.’

‘Part of the skill in identifying and overcoming blindspots is to understand that some are the result of individual traits and others arise from situational factors.’

‘Leaders can assume they are aware of what is occurring around them when, in fact, they have partial, sometimes inaccurate, and often outdated views.’

‘There is some truth in the saying that the surest way to destroy a company is to give it ten years of unmitigated success.’

‘Leaders must strive to create a culture that promotes straight talk but also pay attention to the nuances of communication in the decision making process.’

‘The challenge is to remain focused on the decision that needs to be made while simultaneously paying attention to subtleties that can easily be lost in the heat of debate.’

‘Leaders need to listen openly before a decision is made and then become drivers of results once it is reached.’

‘One of the burdens of moving up is that the complexity of the decisions leaders face increases at the same time as their ability to reveal their vulnerabilities decreases.’

‘Successful leaders have a strong belief in their own abilities … the best and the brightest can easily come to believe that following anything other than their own convictions is foolish.’

‘The leader creates the team and the team then creates the leader– as a primary source of feedback and advice, it becomes a key influence on the leader’s thinking and behavior.’

Source:

Robert Bruce Shaw (2014). Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter