Be a Step-Down Leader: A Radical, New Paradigm for Leading in Anxious Times
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Your primary job as a leader – in your family, community, or career – is to lower anxiety. Period. Traditional models of leadership focus on techniques to motivate, influence, and change people. These models are ineffective and broken. Our continued reliance on these outdated frameworks explains why rates of employee engagement remain at appallingly low levels. It accounts for the fact that “change” programs fail at a shockingly high rate. And it indicates why many families and intimate personal relationships are dysfunctional. It can even help us understand instances where there are voids of leadership in government. The attempt to change others, which is at the core of the current leadership paradigm, is the source of most ineffectiveness in life. And yet, we cling to the current theories because they allow us to avoid responsibility and blame others. This is the big racket we are collectively running.
Be a Step-Down Leader: A Radical, New Paradigm for Leading in Anxious Times
Be a Step-Down Leader: A Radical, New…
Be a Step-Down Leader: A Radical, New Paradigm for Leading in Anxious Times
Your primary job as a leader – in your family, community, or career – is to lower anxiety. Period. Traditional models of leadership focus on techniques to motivate, influence, and change people. These models are ineffective and broken. Our continued reliance on these outdated frameworks explains why rates of employee engagement remain at appallingly low levels. It accounts for the fact that “change” programs fail at a shockingly high rate. And it indicates why many families and intimate personal relationships are dysfunctional. It can even help us understand instances where there are voids of leadership in government. The attempt to change others, which is at the core of the current leadership paradigm, is the source of most ineffectiveness in life. And yet, we cling to the current theories because they allow us to avoid responsibility and blame others. This is the big racket we are collectively running.