Your True North

Your True North

This article is based on the bestselling book Discover Your True North - Becoming An Authentic Leader by Bill George & David Gergen.?

Your Leadership and Your True North:

True leadership means how authentic and genuine you are. Discovering the True North in yourself helps you to become the leader you want to become. True North comes from your deep beliefs, your values, and the principles with which you lead. Discovering your True North needs a commitment of a lifetime and continuous learning.

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The expectation you have from yourself, and the world expects from yourself may not match. If you lead a small team or medium team or a top leader with an organization or a unit in your responsibility, you will surely get a lot of parameters and pressure from external forces to fulfill the need for success. The journey of external pressure may detour from your true north. ?If you get too far, your internal true north might tell you that something is wrong and you need to back to your true track, it needs remapping your mind. It needs a lot of courage to take corrective action to go against those external pressures.

Authentic Leader:

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Authenticity is a gold character in leadership. Higher caliber leaders come with greater authenticity. By discovering true north, these leaders are committed to leading by example, a purpose that makes a difference in the world and leaves a long-lasting legacy. Rather than waiting to become a top-level leaders, these kinds of leaders find every opportunity to lead and develop themselves as an authentic leader. Authentic leaders who follow their true north have learned from their failures, set back. They know they must be authentic to gain realness with those with whom they work and multiple stakeholders who have entrusted interest in their organization. These leaders are committed to building sustainable values for their organizations to produce short-term and long-term results. They have global visions and an appeal to make long-lasting contributions to their organization. As a result, these authentic leaders who understand the current complex and VUCA world’s business are rising to the top of their organization globally.

Have you discovered your true north?

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Discovering True North needs hard work, and it may take a long time which varies individually. There are no such training steps to discover it as per this book. It needs your continued effort, and dedication towards yourself to discover yourself and change yourself.

As per this book following are the parts of the journey:

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The source of this picture is Discover Your True North - Becoming An Authentic Leader by Bill George & David Gergen.

Once you discover the purpose of your leadership, you will surely find the true leader in you. You will enable yourself to inspire and empower others as an authentic leader. In today’s complex, VUCA world, discovering your True North helps you to stay on track of authentic & true leadership. When you will be able to discover your True North, you will become an authentic leader and will leave a long-lasting legacy of your leadership.

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Also, you can get the book from Amazon.?

Arjun Warrier (Alpha Whiskey)

Helping people attain clarity in their professional journey. | Love to connect with like- minded people on Personal growth Finance, Emerging business models, brands and sector agnostic skills |

1 年

An interesting read Prolay Ghosh. In this context, it's paramount to revisit the context on which our belief system rests upon. Often at times, there is a need to revisit them over due course of time. Moreover, it's always helps to align ones moral compass to that of one's own values. Our actions emerge from the quality of conversations we have with ourselves - everyday. Glad you are touching upon such relevant topics as there is an urgent need to have collective in depth discussions. Today's leaders are required to shoulder an emerging expectation - to act like a pole star for upcoming teams. Eg, Ability to relay content curated for a target audience has started gaining much more significance unlike the days in the past. Internet and social media platforms allows the consumption of 'spoken words' in comparison to 'written words'. A conscious effort is in need of the hour.

Dr. Prolay Ghosh

AI & Data Practice Lead for GDS USA Commercial Sectors | GenBI | LinkedIn Top Data Visualization Voice 2024

1 年

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