Great leaders question everything
Starting with themselves.
It's how they lead themselves. Smart decisions and the highest actions come from self-awareness.
In coaching, we call it “coming from a clean place.”
This means:
choosing vulnerability
risking exposure
challenging assumptions
exposing bias.
It’s clearing out anything that has influenced you without your permission. It’s how you regret-proof any decision.
Strategic leaders are
forever questioning in order to INCREASE their capacity
to think in new ways.
Our beliefs become our default operating mode.
The human mind likes the efficiency of reacting. It wants answers to come fast and easy, replaying old patterns based on old constructs. It’s more cognitively taxing to pause and thoughtfully consider.
So we avoid it, robbing us of the ability to expand our cognitive skills.
However…
Strategic leaders are forever questioning in order to increase their capacity to think in new ways and advance their strategic impact. And make meaningful connections with those they lead.
The question you're avoiding being asked may be the one you most need to answer.
