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I have dealt with many team leaders, project managers and technical leads during my decade long career. While their positions say they are some kind of leader, their actions fail to justify that many times.
They see their primary role as spoon-feeders, epic problem-solvers and fire-eaters. So they feed their people with spoon, solve their problems by being a hero and eat the fires.
They end up spending 15 odd hours a day in the office, compels their team members also to stay in the office that long just to see how they are solving the problems and help the chaos grow.
Many of such people have grown up in chaos-based-management culture and therefore they tend to create chaos if it is not there and then feeling satisfied that they could manage it.
Such people are just the Titles Without On-Key Leadership.
They do not know that leadership is a state of mind, an opportunity which is available to everyone, regardless of their title or anything else.
It’s about taking province for the organization’s well-being and growth and changing it for the greater good.
As a leader, you don’t need to spoon-feed your people, solve their problems in a heroic way or eat the fire. You need to keep your people cheered up, optimistic and ready to play their best in the face of change.
To do that, you have to be in the present moment, need to have faith in an uncertain next and should be able to lead yourself first.
Leadership means getting things done by doing what is right, one thing at a time, not only you doing things in a heroic manner.
Power Question: Who are you? A title or a leader?
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