Rising Tide Leadership Podcast: Simplifying the Complexities of Your Leadership Journey

Episode 2: Developing a Leadership Lens

“Everything that you see needs to be seen through the lens of leadership.” ~MO

What is a Leadership Lens?

  • The way you view life and relationships.

Leadership Lens: Instinct or choice?

Why is it important to recognize it is a choice?

  • The way that we view life depends on the activities that we engage in, and the people that we associate with.
  • Leaders give up rights for responsibility.
  • Leaders don’t make excuses. Leaders make it happen.

Reflection Question 1: “Am I viewing life through a leadership lens?”

Can anyone develop a leadership lens?

  • Short answer: Yes
  • Long answer: If you are willing to take the next 20 years to change the way you think.

What are some other lenses that people commonly mistake for a leadership lens?

  • The Manager Lens
    • Just because people listen to you and do what you say, does not mean that you are a leader.
    • “We manage numbers, but we lead people.” - Peter Drucker
    • Most people in positions of influence, are living in what John Maxwell calls the lowest level of leadership or “positional leadership.”

How to know whether you are leading or managing?

  • When your people start coming to you for something that has nothing to do with your work relationship, you are on the precipice of influence and leadership.
  • “We need to give, knowing that we will never be able to receive anything for the work that we put in.”

3 Ways to Develop a Leadership Lens

  1. Become “others focused”.

  2. Have the best interest of your people in mind.

  3. Think of yourself less.

  4. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” - CS Lewis

  5. Make it a way of life.

  6. “You can fool your superiors but you can’t full your subordinates.” - Unknown

Reflection Question 2: Are you willing to change your viewpoint so that seeing life through a leadership lens is a way of life?

MO’s Final Thoughts:

Start making subtle changes. Start thinking about others in everything you do. Start thinking about yourself less. Learn to live everyday this way and it will become a way of life.

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