WEEK 3: Daring to Lead - Section 2: The Call to Courage

 The Call to Courage

  1. What 2-3 concepts or quotes from Section 2 are most interesting or important to you? Why?

I will keep 

  • “We should all be held accountable for being both optimistic and realistic”, in the second chapter of Dare to Lead, it is stated that if we label people we are not leveraging the fullness of their potential. The financial will always be the financial and that is it, the marketing guy will always see things from that point of view and that’ll be it. It will be difficult for everyone to have an open vision of the picture if they are labeled.
  • Setting boundaries: We need to understand it is good to feel certain things but the reactions as a result of these feelings need to be controlled. It is OK to be angry but it is not OK to yell at someone if you are, for example.
  • We can’t do our jobs when we own other people’s emotions or take responsibility for them as a way to control the related behaviors, for one simple reason: Other people’s emotions are not our jobs. We can’t both serve people and try to control their feelings. This is also a quote I feel is really important. When we try to control what other people’s feel or want to change what other people’s feel, we get into a vicious circle because it is practically impossible to do so. I believe that we first need to change the thought, the perception, the view of things of people in order to “control” emotions. Once people see things in a different form, they feel different too and their actions also change, consequently results change. 

Please answer the following:


What is your personal call to courage as a leader? Be specific and explain.  

I want to be braver at giving honest feedback. I belong to the group of people who often tries to be nice, so I am not clear when giving feedback and sometimes “decorate” it in order not to hurt feelings. I need to work on that. People’s feelings are not our job, that phrase keeps ringing in my head.

 



 


 

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