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Leaders Aren't Leaders Based on Their 'Say So'



Leaders Aren't Leaders Based on Their 'Say So'
   

Can we really define successful leaders independent of organizational performance? If you're talking about people leaders, then yes. And when we go back and look back at leaders in history, we might look at trends and ways of being independent of the places they worked in. However these leaders earned their reputations based on the work they did with people in organizations and whether or not those organizations prospered. One can be a success in one organization and bomb in the next. There's a great deal at play here.



There's a chemistry that happens with leadership in any organization. It's more than just necessary skill sets and knowledge base which is needed to lead an organization into their next phase, it's also having a way with people and working with an existing organizational history and culture. One can't take each facet at face value. It's a combination of people connection, articulated vision and priority setting and savvy. A person doesn't get parachuted into an organization to be automatically loved and accepted and followed no matter what. They need to prove themselves to the people within, and a part of that is having the history of successes within their previous positions. Otherwise are they just people walking into a job saying "I'm a leader and have no data, no past history with which I can prove it to you?" How would that define them as a leader?

One can have all the skills necessary to be a strong leader, however unless it's measured against something, an organization or group's performance, there is no way to know. Putting the right people in the right place is one way to help those skills evolve and shine. Question is, are the right people in the right places to make an organization shine?



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Donna Karlin, CEC, founder of 'A Better Perspective' has pioneered the specialized practice of Shadow Coaching with global senior organizational leaders. Donna is an author, speaker and lectures internationally. In response to widely expressed interest to her highly successful and innovative approach to coaching, she established the School of Shadow Coaching™ to enable others to learn the practice. Donna’s work has been written up in Fast Company Magazine, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Personal Success Magazine, as well as in numerous online articles including BusinessListening.com, The Training Report, and SelfGrowth.com. She recently co-authored the best selling book ‘101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life’ with Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn. Donna writes a weekly column for Fast Company called “Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership” and her blog Perspectives™ is subscribed to by readers from 133 countries. She has a proven track record in developing sustainable leadership.
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