“We’re all leaders – we’re leading our lives at the very minimum, but some of us are leading layers and layers of teams and what we do matters – and is felt every layer down the organizational chart to the customer experience.”
Think about family trees. Family dinners. Family business – everyone knows who the top dog is. Everyone knows the family way. Everyone knows who “we” are.
“We” can mean great things, it can mean mediocre things, or it can even mean bad things. Who you are, who you came from, can have a detrimental effect on who you are.
You don’t have to lead the way your mom did. You don’t have to eat the way your dad did. You don’t have to cut the ends off the ham like grandma did (do you know this one?!) because you’ve got a bigger pan. You are a bigger pan!
(Backstory: Generations of people cut the ends off the ham, no one knows why, finally they ask grandma and it’s because the ham didn’t fit in her pan…)
So how do you be the bigger pan? You take up more space, you make room for the ham! You make room for what is there, what is coming, for possibility.
You can’t become a better leader until you acknowledge where you lead. It’s awareness first, and then action.
So ask yourself: “Where am I leading?”
That’s where you start, and sometimes just knowing that answer can change everything.
