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I say there are four shifts that a leader needs to embrace. First is a shift in mindset. You're not managing people and processes any more, you're en… - Heather McGowan
" "I say there are four shifts that a leader needs to embrace. First is a shift in mindset. You're not managing people and processes any more, you're enabling success. And to be intentionally provocative about it, I say, "You used to think of the people as working for you. Now, you work for them. You enable their success, because you're not going to get anywhere without their success". The second is a shift in culture. We used to, when we had the same skills and knowledge of the leader and the team, and then usually across the team, you could pit people against each other. Forced rankings, all those kind of bad ideas, Hunger Games kind of stuff, that doesn't work anymore. So you've got to shift from peers as competitors to peers as collaborators.
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About Heather McGowan
Heather McGowan is an American writer. She is the author of the novels Schooling and Duchess of Nothing Schooling was named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Detroit Free Press and The Hartford Courant. McGowan has a master in fine arts from Brown University.
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It's a huge shift and I gave a couple of talks one week to commercial real estate folks and they were all, it was mostly boomers, some Gen X, they were mostly kind of alpha dog folks, more males, one of them was almost all male. It's not gendered though but that was the case in this instance and they were like, "Don't you think we're getting woke, and aren't we getting soft, and aren't we losing our edge?" And I thought, "Oh, I'm not explaining this right, if that's what you're taking away from this".
I'm telling you to have empathy, but I'm not having empathy for you". And I think that was a huge aha, is that if you were brought up, raised with this, give up your Saturdays, don't go to your kids' soccer game or cricket game, whatever it may be; work comes before everything, maybe get on to your second or third marriage because you've ground all your relationships to dust. That's how you become a leader, and then in order to lead, you've got to have your people be afraid of you and not like you and that that's what you were brought up with. This does seem like, "How could this possibly work?
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leaders should understand that employees want to feel like their work has a purpose and act in that way. Yet, if we look at Gallup's research over the past 20 years, we can see the highest rates of disengagement, mental illness, burnout, and loneliness, which are not exactly traits that highlight being purpose-driven.
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