6/30/2023 0 Comments Montrose by John BuchanI'm currently looking for my next IT leadership opportunity. A true leader is someone who helps us find it, recognize it, and succeed with it. It means being actively aware of and involved in their professional lives - giving them encouragement to do the right thing, helping them find their greatness, recognizing them each as special, and finding opportunities for them to be heroes. That doesn't just mean sending staff to training classes, or providing annual employee reviews. And so I strongly believe that a core role and duty of a leader is not just developing strategies and aligning people to them, but developing those people, too. People want to see themselves, and be seen as, the hero of their own story ( as John Barth put it).īut we all need help, sometimes, to find that greatness within us. I believe that people try to do the right thing, try to be good, seek to be great, and desire to be recognized as special. I have that quotation on my resume, and I'm often asked why, or what it means to me. John Buchan (1875-1940) Scottish novelist, poet, and politician Governor-General of Canada (1935 -1940). ❝The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.❞
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