How to make selflessness your leadership legacy

As humans, all leaders have some level of active self-preservation. But operating solely from this lens can be detrimental to all stakeholders, and ruinous for reputations. Leaders need to expand their circle of concern beyond just ‘me and my reputation’. The bigger we define the ‘us’, the more likely we will endure, with a leadership legacy to be proud of.

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The danger with trying to be right all the time

We all have voices in our head that whisper, or sometimes shout. The good and bad news is you’ll have them forever. The cool thing is you get to choose whether they are right or not and whether you will feed them or shut them down. Yet if you have a ‘cognitive distortion’ that lends itself to being right most of the time then this might not serve you.

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