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Leadership as Guardrail

“You don’t want to do that!” Uncle Dave said that to me as I opened the car door before we came to a complete stop. I’m not sure exactly what happened next, but it included me not listening to him, the car screeching to a halt, the door swinging open, a loud honking from the swerving pick-up truck next to us, and, perhaps most importantly for this 7-year-old boy, the strong arm of Uncle Dave reaching across from the driver’s side to grab me before I fell out the door and under the wheels of the truck.

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There’s a growing leadership discussion about minimizing meetings.  The argument goes this way, “meetings are a waste of time” “nothing good happens in meetings” “meetings keep me from doing my real work as a leader.”

Let me be perfectly clear: I vehemently disagree
Leaders: we must be “meeters”

I will go so far as to say that one of the most important jobs of a leader is to be in meetings.  

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The First Job of a Leader is Self-Leadership

I’ve shared on several other blogs earlier this year the importance of a leader leading himself or herself first.   Much of self-leadership has to do with personal integrity, character and living by a moral compass.  But some of self-leadership simply has to do with living in a competent, disciplined way.  I use five tools to help me keep the promises I make to others (and myself).

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