Bootstrap Leadership

Part TwoAdd Something New to Your Game

IF YOU’RE SERIOUS about developing yourself as a leader, you need to do more than just leverage your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. Those are just the skills you have today. In order to break out and move up the organizational ladder, you need to continually add new elements to your leadership toolkit. The leaders who stand still are destined to stay at their current level or even fall behind. If you’re not constantly learning and adding new capabilities, your peers will leave you in the dust, and you’ll be surpassed by the group of managers coming up behind you. Don’t think so? Better look around—those bright, ambitious managers who thrive on development? They’d love to have your job. In today’s ...