Thoughtfully Ruthless

Chapter 4Become Brilliant at Demonstrating Your Brilliance

Thoughtfully ruthless leaders know that results alone will not build and sustain incredible success. Your brilliance alone will not endlessly carry you forward in your career. Eventually, it will crash on the shoreline, and you will lose that propulsion if you don't create an endless source of continuous thrust by being brilliant at demonstrating your brilliance. The requirement to demonstrate your brilliance increases exponentially as you accelerate your career. Employees and frontline managers are rewarded and recognized predominantly for their immediate results, whereas CEOs and executives have to pay more attention to how they are demonstrating their results, impact, and value.

You may know you are brilliant, but not know how to effectively demonstrate it, or you may not even be sure how brilliant you are. Try mapping yourself against this assessment. Rate how strong your results are and how well you showcase and demonstrate those results (see Figure 4.1).

Figure 4.1 Brilliant at Demonstrating Brilliance © Val Wright Consulting. All rights reserved.

Assessing Your Brilliance and How Brilliantly You Demonstrate It

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