Thank you Seth Godin for your wisdom, insight and sharing
Being out in front, questioning, asking, telling, wondering, trying, failing, starting over, relentlessly striving, pushing, pulling, challenging, never satisfied.
These are all attributes of the heretical leader we all need, and hate, most.
Midlife Crisis or Midlife Celebration. Change is the only winning strategy.
So then how much drive and desire is enough? In our (assumed) quest for personal leadership excellence, do we pursue what’s easier to do and what we like to do, or do we work ridiculously (and continually) hard at having a balanced approach?
What if a business didn’t focus on these five: Leaders, Employees, Customers, Financials, Innovation? What if they were good at two, three or even four, but deficient at the other(s). Now apply that to our personal life: Mind, Body, Spirit, Money, HQ. How much is enough?
This is a big one. We have the choice in life, relationships, health, volunteering, everything really – to coast or climb. There is a certain logic to coasting (not working too hard), you know, conserving our energy.
This logic can also be applied to climbing (working hard), expending our energy. What say ye?
Playing it safe is par for the course. The lesser of two evils. The obvious choice. But we must take risks if we want to be a better leader. Our job isn’t to maintain, it’s to make things better.
This leads us back to August 5th when we asked if you’d rather be smart of clever.