CHAPTER NINETaking Care of Your People
The previous chapters have focused on helping you win the war of your own well‐being—to conquer the chaos that causes a lack of Peace.
This chapter is designed for people who lead others—an executive or boss, coach, or parent. It is for anyone who leads people or is responsible for taking care of others.
Through the years I have observed radical transformation inside people who finally got it. They woke up to the reality that they are responsible to help others get to the next level.
Taking Responsibility
Who are the People you are responsible for leading? To be responsible means having an obligation to do something or having control over or care for someone as part of one's job or role. That job could be a paid position like a team leader, manager, or executive. Or, that responsibility might be as the oldest child toward aging parents or simply your role as mother or father.
Leadership is responsibility. It means you take care of the people you lead. That is what leadership is. Leadership means you are 1) responsible for doing your own work (to perform) while 2) helping others do their roles (helping them perform).
When Steve Cockram and I wrote The 100X Leader, we highlighted the Sherpa on Mt. Everest as the best metaphor for leadership. The Sherpa must be the healthiest climber on the mountain while helping others climb. If they are not healthy, the climbers won't respect them or follow them. Because the Sherpa have a genetic predisposition ...
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