The inner edge of leadership

Working with leaders over the past few years,I've been struck by how frequently confidence comes into the foreground at some pointduring our work together.

An enormous amount has been written about what leadership is, both from the perspective of assessing competence and from the perspective of the needs of those being led. What particularly interests me is the point at which the challenge of leading other people, often in difficult circumstances, starts to rub against the lingering insecurities present in even the most experienced. Too much friction and anyone can end up off balance.

But getting back on track, the subject of my first book, is only the extreme end of a continuum. I will be embarking on a new book in the Autumn. Like  Getting Back on Track, it will use real case studies. The aim is to bridge the gap between the leader as hero and the inner work that any leader needs to do to build their confidence muscles. Watch this space.

Comments

[Duncan Brodie]

Ann

Firstly congratulations on the blog.

Confidence is a great area to be looking at in leaders. I am sure that a lot of the time leaders to the rest of the world seem supremely confident when they are feeling very different themselves.

I notice that when I work with clients in leadership roles, they sometimes make up what they should be like now that they are a leader and lose sight of the range of natural talents they have.

Duncan Brodie
Goals and Achievements
http://www.goalsandachievements.co.uk/