The Next Wave in Leadership Development: Habits As a leader, what role do you take in your own leadership development?
If 2020 taught us anything, it was the importance of seeing the big picture without losing sight of the small details. This requires a tremendous skill in balancing priorities, energy, and focus. And while most great leaders can take pride in their ability to multi-task under stress, this year has really tested their abilities.
Leaders are called on again and again to shift their attention from one priority to another. They must consistently and consciously choose (and judge) that which is deserving of their attention. They must ignore impertinent distractions.
Artist s conception of the exoplanet Proxima b, orbiting Proxima Centauri (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser)
Late in 2020 remember 2020? We had so much fun astronomers reported radio signals from Proxima Centauri, which, as you know, is at present the closest star to the Sun. This sort of thing cannot be due to aliens (of course)… but just suppose it were.
If the signal is from entities native to the Proximan system (which is now known to have at least two worlds, one of which is a terrestrial world in the liquid water zone) then either we got stupendously lucky or technological life is very, very common. If the aliens are not native to Proxima, then they got there somehow, which strongly suggests that:
The importance Of Leadership Habits From: As a leader, what role do you take in your own leadership development?
If 2020 taught us anything, it was the importance of seeing the big picture without losing sight of the small details. This requires a tremendous skill in balancing priorities, energy, and focus. And while most great leaders can take pride in their ability to multi-task under stress, this year has really tested their abilities.
Leaders are called on again and again to shift their attention from one priority to another. They must consistently and consciously choose (and judge) that which is deserving of their attention. They must ignore impertinent distractions.
The Next Wave in Leadership Development: HabitsAs a leader, what role do you take in your own leadership development? If 2020 taught us anything, it was the importance of seeing the big picture without losing sight of the small details. This requires a tremendous skill in balancing priorities, energy, and