When facing challenges and adversity, my experience shows three common leadership responses:
- Face and accept the situation head on and proactively figure out how to correct or improve it.
- Accept it as fate and hope that it will somehow get better or resolve itself.
- Find fault with other people or circumstances and enter into the “blame game.”
I suppose you could classify these three reactions as aggressive, passive or victim!
Genuine Leadership includes the qualities of honesty, candor and accountability. To act any other way beyond #1 above is NOT Leadership!
As the old saying goes, you can be part of the problem or part of the solution.
Facing situations for what they are, diligently thinking and managing through the crisis, while making unemotional fact-based decisions is the most constructive strategy for moving forward.
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