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What No One Told You About Leadership, But What You Need To Know
Once upon a time, in the dim and distant past, being a leader was a simple task. It was all about who could shout the loudest and who complained the most; add these together with some quickfire orders and things would get done. They might not get done well or to a particularly high standard, and they might not get done by employees who enjoyed the process or were happy in their work, but they would get done all the same.
When you were this kind of leader, you would expect a lot from your employees and not give them a huge amount in return. Why should you? You’re the leader. When you’re this kind of leader you can fire people at will and hire more easily because there will always be someone out there who can do what you need them to do at the price you want to pay them and who will be grateful for the work.
You could have your pick and whether or not the employee was happy or had a good work life balance wasn’t any of your concern.
And that was about it.
Being a leader, as we’ve said, wasn’t hard.
But then things changed and leadership changed with it. This was not a bad thing; in fact, it was a much needed re-energization of the business world, but it left a lot of old style leaders behind, and caused businesses to start to crumble which was not the intention at all. The good news is, everyone is capable of change and everyone is capable of being a…
