You Are Here

The best leadership advice I ever received?

Name Reality. (Two words. They stuck.)

A leader I worked with in Canada said this and it has stayed with me. Because it’s true.

You need to put a pin 📍 in your map (...personal, team, business).

📍 You Are Here.

Then you can make grounded decisions about options and ways forward.

The hard part, yes, is reality isn’t always what we want it to be. The temptation can be to soften it, spin it….or skip past it entirely.

I do think, however, that a person who can look clearly at what is — not what was planned, not what’s hoped for— that’s leadership people trust when it matters most.

So, a question for reflect on: What’s one area in your work or team right now where you might be avoiding naming the reality?

Put in the pin 📍