Real-Time Leadership

9

Check If You’re Right

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

—Eric Metaxas

As a leader, you need to be adept at understanding your Vantage Point for any given challenge or priority so that you can do an internal check on it. Ask yourself as you look out at the landscape: Am I right? Am I seeing clearly, or is anything interfering with my point of view? What if I looked at this situation from someone else’s point of view? True alignment means you fully appreciate others’ perspectives and use them to challenge or validate your own. If you look around at your team or board, do you know ...