The Helpless Leader
PETE COHEN
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Do you need help?
Let's be honest, most leaders do. They need help to create a flourishing business and to help people to be their very best.
Humans are social animals - we need relationships and the ability to express ourselves to others. We need to share our experiences and, most of all, we need to ask for help. Yet, people find it really difficult to talk (men more than women, in general) and that can make leadership a really lonely place.
Leadership, for me, is the art of seeing things from multiple perspectives. So often, we see the world in a binary way - right and wrong, good and evil, yes and no. That, as my coach always told me, is a naive way of thinking. Everyone has different ways of looking at thing, and, for every situation, there are as many perspectives as there are potential outcomes - more probably.
If you are working to become an inspiring leader, the ability to look at a situation in many different ways and to help your team to do the same is a vital skill to develop. If you can help people to see things differently - to think, "I never thought of it like that" that is when they will be ready to make lasting change.
So, tell me, in the comments below, Who do you talk to when you need a different perspective? Where do you go when you need to make sense of the world? And who comes to you, to help them?
Join the debate.
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6 年Hi Pete. Another great article touching on crucial behaviours for successful outcomes. I talk to the people around me to develop my viewpoints and to test my own thinking. To make sense of the world (in my professional life ) I reach out as much as I can to reference agencies and continue to play back through open conversation with people around me. From experience this attracts a dynamic set of parties seeking guidance or support to resolve problems.
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6 年Feeling small in a huge online world I turn to the TED talks until I can surround myself with people who are heading in my direction.??
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6 年Thanks for the article Pete it raises another interesting subject. I have met and worked with lots of senior leadership who put their ego first and you can see that they find it difficult to respond to the situation around them as their dominant behaviours are about them, how am I going to look? What if I fail? How do I survive? How can I get others to carry the load? I think firstly you need to let go of your ego. If you are a leader you work with others who have experiences and ideas, take time to listen and understand, sometimes their ideas are the best and this gives you an amazing opportunity to praise and re-enforce the vital behaviour in your team to provide you are your business with ideas. Put your ego last and listen to those around you, engage, energise and connect.
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6 年Wonderful article Pete Cohen! Being willing and able to view and understand things from a variety of perspectives opens up a range of practical and creative possibilities in almost any situation.