Recently I met with the CEO of an international NGO that was achieving promising early results and was generally on track.…And yet, seemingly out of nowhere, the Board Chair was dissatisfied and was looking to pull the pin.
The bar for anyone in a leadership position has been set so high that it has become ‘Instagram unattainable’. The way we view leadership needs a shakeup.
This week across a couple of my client conversations, the need for risk-appropriate decision making arose. Situations where the time and effort spent making a decision was out of whack with the related risk of the decision. To put it simply: simple decisions were taking too long to make.
It’s my birthday this week. Yet another rotation around the sun on this amazing planet. I’m older, a little lighter (thankfully), a little wealthier (again thankfully), and a little greyer.
My current listen is Factfulness. It’s a refreshing look at the world - but is there a lesson in there for change leaders?