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Great Leaders Help People Assume Responsibility
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Article Overview: “The price of greatness is responsibility.” - Winston Churchill
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Great Leaders Help People Assume Responsibility
"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill
To assume responsibility invariably means making a personal choice. This statement points to an important truth: No one can tell you to change. Committing to change means making a choice. You have to choose to assume responsibility for the way things are and for making them better.
Assuming responsibility for making things better means confronting a paradox of the deepest kind: We cannot see what we want to become. We can only catch a glimpse of it, and only then in our best moments. Assuming responsibility means asking a series of questions: "What do I truly envision for my organization? What is the legacy I want to leave?" Developing your full potential as a leader means trusting in a different, better course - one that's invisible to you now. Remember: The word leader comes from an Anglo-Saxon root word "leith" that means "to be out in front." The same root word also means "to die." You need to be prepared to shed parts of your old life in order to build a new one.
Once you start tackling these questions seriously, the door opens to all sorts of possibilities. You can identify your natural allies, your appropriate teachers, and the kinds of support you need to create. You can take the initial steps to change. Over time, you will come to see that highly effective leaders are continually scrutinizing their behaviors, accepting responsibility for them, and shedding parts of their old lives to build a better one.
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