Courageous Leadership
Leadership can be brutally hard. It constantly challenges you, increases your stress and often puts you in situations you may not know how to handle.
A good friend of mine said that leadership is really about courage – and I realized, talking to many successful CEOs, that they get comfortable being uncomfortable. They get used to the tough conversations, with taking risks, and with failure.
Courage is about taking risks. It’s about taking the high road when everyone else goes lower. It’s about confronting the brutal facts and doing things others don’t want to do. It’s about doing things you don’t want to do.
And courage is a mindset. It’s the lens through which you take risks, have tough conversation, stretch yourself and receive the punishment of being in a senior role. Through this lens, you can take on those challenges, and feel invigorated and proud of conquering them.
|