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Want to inspire and lead your team? First get clarity on whether you’re leading… or managing.
It’s easy for leaders to fall into the managing mindset. Because when you aren’t clear about where you’re going, checking off tasks and managing processes makes you feel like you’re accomplishing something.
But your team (and your organization!) need you to be a leader. That’s because successful organizations have ambitious goals…and they set the standard for their industry. They need leaders who have a clear vision for where they’re going and who can engage, rally, and inspire others to make those goals a reality.
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What is the best leadership advice that you’ve received in your career or given to others? So, the difference between a leader and a manager is that a leader is helping to articulate and shine a light on and generate ambition towards something that doesn’t already exist. “I’m going to lead you somewhere.” A manager is making sure that everything that needs to happen in order for that to happen occurs. So, you’re asking the leadership question. And so then the fundamental is, well, where are you leading people to? What is that future that you’re looking to invent or to create? And in that regard, the underlying inspiration that I use for myself on a regular basis is that a life well lived contributes to the well-being of others. So then if you’re a leader, are you looking to lead an organization to make the customers’ lives better? Are you leading your organization towards making your team and staff members’ lives better? Are you leading your organization in a way that makes the community in which your customers and your colleagues all come from and live every day? Are you making the community better? Are you making the ecology or the environment better? Which is obviously an issue for people alive in our era. So, the leadership advice is, “Where is it you’re actually leading people to?” Very clear on that, and then that can help drive a lot of other behaviors and actions and inspiration for others to join you.
