You're It by Leonard J. Marcus & David Gergen

Author:Leonard J. Marcus & David Gergen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2019-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Leaders often describe leadership as lonely, especially when the situation is bad. The worse the situation is, the lonelier it can feel. When the situation is really bad, you can be overcome with feelings of isolation.

Should you find yourself experiencing the profound loneliness of a bad situation, know that it can be also be an opportunity to discover your greatest personal resilience. That resilience is critical to the resilience of the larger operation—or in a very broad situation, the overall population. Your followers are far less likely to be resilient if you cannot find that quality within yourself.

This is the lesson of Ethan Zohn. Cultivating your resilience is critical to mastering the many situations you face. Life is not linear, it’s complex. It is full of unexpected pivots. Should you simply dispense with planning because you know that you will face many situations, large and small, every day? Not at all. Remember, plans are directional, not deterministic. Context is dynamic. Be attuned to the world around you—and the world within yourself. Without this awareness, you will miss opportunities or needlessly succumb to setbacks.

Embrace a mind-set of striving to fully perceive, orient to, and understand the situations that surround you. Only then can you truly engage the enterprise of the people to whom you connect and who look to you for guidance and direction: those down, up, across, and beyond your organization. Connectivity—this is the topic we turn to in the next chapters.

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