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Leaders Speak Truth with Lisa Marshall
Leaders speak the vision and managers put together the action
Together they make change happen.
Stories are the single greatest tool that mature leaders have. They listen respectfully to others wants and needs from multiple viewpoints and then creates a story that speaks a vision.
The bigger the story, the more people want to be a part.
Signs of an immature leader:
- They are young and charismatic
- They have great adventures
- They need to never lose
- Others take really good care of them
- Their failure of nerve makes it difficult or impossible to consider other views
- Easily buckle under to the pressure of other people’s anxiety
Mature leadership:
- Leaders know it is their job to contain anxiety
- They are so fierce and firm that there was no place for giving way to anxiety
- They are able to remain focused on vision
- They sense a connection to spiritual forces beyond themselves
- They have the discipline to hold onto that connection especially during stress
- They are moved by gratitude and gives it free and generously
- They don’t lose their ethical boundaries
- They are able to dialogue with differences with respect
- They know and can deliver the moral message
- They invite conversations
- They are self responsible
- They lead from moral and spiritual authority rather than positional power
- They give themselves to something bigger.
People in corporate America are struggling. Boomers were poor role models for mature leadership.
Her work and book, Speak the Truth and Point to Hope: The Leader’s Journey to Maturity, can be found on her website at: http://www.smartworkco.com.
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