As leaders, we face challenges. This week is week 1 of a 4 week series on Traits of Leaders and we focus specifically on how to persevere in the face of challenges of balance. I also offer solutions to overcome the challenges.
[callout]This episode originally appeared on the Family Before Fortune Podcast which is now the Modern Leadership Podcast. To listen to Modern Leadership click here. To see the Family Before Fortune Podcast archive click here.[/callout]
Episode Summary: Persevere in the Face of Challenges
Four leadership challenges of balance:
- Balance: To be liked as well as respected
- Solution: Start with respect and then never lose it
- Balance: Motivation with overwhelm
- Solution: Start with Why
- Balance: Multiple projects/assignments – TIME
- Solution: Begin each day and end each day with review of what the most important objective for the day should be
- Balance: Personal needs of those you lead with your goals or organizational needs
- Solution: Building trust with your team. Communication and transparency
Book on The Shelf
[callout]Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen [/callout]
First Southpole Expedition:
- Roald Amundsen (39- winner) v. Robert Falcon Scott (43- loser)
- Comparable experience
- Started respective journeys within days of each other
- Roundtrip more than 1,400 miles
- Temperatures easily reach 20˚ below zero even in the summer
- 1911 – no radio, no cellphones, no satellite links
- Rescue highly improbable
What was the difference? The 20-mile march.
Learning From Leaders
[shareable cite=”Zig Ziglar” text=”When you do the things you need to do… #quote”]When you do the things you need to do, when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do, when you want to do them [/shareable]
Explore Additional Resources
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek