Leaders: Is it all about you? Check yourself with these warning signs

Leadership requires you to be present to the needs, abilities, and potential of other people — and to respond quickly and strategically to those signals.

 
But when it’s always all about you, that’s virtually impossible to do.

Here are 10 warning signs that you may be getting in your own way as a leader and making a habit out of self-distraction:

 
1. What other people experience rarely occurs to you.

The path to empowering other people starts with curiosity about what they’re thinking, feeling and doing. If you find yourself focused primarily on your own experience, then you’re still a distance from the emotional launchpad of leadership.

 
2. You don’t ask very many questions.

A measurable indicator of your interest in others is the number of questions you ask them or at least want to ask them. If this isn’t an impulse you feel very often, then you may be stuck in your own head.

The good news is that the remedy is actionable (get in there, inquiring minds!), and there’s a prize inside for going for it: People tend to become more interesting as you learn more about them.

 
3. The most interesting thing about other people is what they think of you.

We all care what other people think about us. This is different from caring so much that you’re disinterested in all the other thoughts someone else might be having. If you can’t sustain genuine interest in the ideas of other people — including those ideas that have nothing to do with you — then you haven’t yet earned the right to lead.

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Πηγή: ideas.ted.com