Don’t tell anyone what you’re doing. Don’t brag about it. Don’t post it. Don’t like it or subscribe to it. Just do it. Do the Hard work first, everything else is easy work. Anyone can do the easy work. We need the hard work.
When Leading your team out of the storm, they aren’t looking for Thunder and Lightning. They are looking for calm. They are looking for someone to lead them out of the storm with calm. Lead them that way.
If you’re saying this, if you’re thinking this. You probably are. You might be using product x correctly, but you now know that this is not the way you want to do things so in effect – yes you are doing it wrong. Don’t stop at GO, Don’t collect $200 – figure it out to get back on track. This feeling you have – this is the nascent birth of Technical Debt that many live…
This is different from Delayed Leadership. Delaying Leadership is when you know there is a need, you know there is a problem, and you can’t put your finger on it, but something is broken somehow, somewhere and your team needs help. But, this involves change, it requires a grinding of the gears, a breaking of things that are, and acknowledging that something different has to be done. So we actively work to delay any changes…
Delayed Leadership occurs when there is no leader, and a gap emerges from the time leadership was needed to the time someone stepped up to do the job. Perhaps it was the time it took to find the right person but more likely, it was the acceptance that we needed someone to have Leadership, to recognize we had a problem that led to the initiative of Leadership occurring. The former gets you on the right…