Chapter 3
Understand why you want to lead
Before you start out on your leadership journey, take some time to understand why you really want to become a leader
Hopefully you’re with us so far, and starting to get excited about how you can harness change to supercharge your leadership potential. There’s one more step before you can start to begin your leadership journey proper. You need to answer a really important question: why do I want to lead in the first place?
The answer may not be as obvious as it sounds. For while the perks of being a leader are obvious when you think of the earnings, influence and status associated with leadership roles, there are big responsibilities too, to the people around you and the results that you’re in charge ...
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