It Is So Damn Hard
Leading well is really hard. Asking questions is one of the most important and difficult aspects of leading.
By Steve Moran
A few weeks ago, NYT bestselling author Kim Scott published this post on LinkedIn. In her post, she asks this question:
What is your go-to question that transformed your conversations at work?
I love questions. This was a great one. I was then shocked to see very few responses.
I was even more surprised to discover that with one exception (my response), not a single person answered her question.
It’s Hard
Here is the lesson: Leading well is really hard. Asking questions is one of the most important and difficult aspects of leading. More broadly, knowing how to transform leadership principles like “Radical Candor” into concrete actions is the hardest thing of all.
No leader wants to be a bad leader; in fact, the opposite is true. The problem is they often don’t know how to build great high-performance teams.
It seems obvious: If they knew how, they would.
Practical Passionate Leadership
Practical Passionate Leadership, my new Substack newsletter, has a single goal, and that is to give leaders from the C-suite to department heads practical, actionable things they can do to create better cultures in their organizations, their individual locations, and their individual departments. These are things that have been proven to work.
They are mostly simple to implement, and while not a single one is a magic bullet, if you do them consistently, the results will be astonishing.
Warning
While most are very simple to do, many will be incredibly uncomfortable to do. Not because they are hard, but because you will be leading in a different way that will feel unnatural to you. Some will feel awkward, and you will find yourself falling back into old habits even though you know those old habits are not serving you as well as you would like.
Practical Passionate Leadership
The platform is 100% devoted to helping leaders lead better, helping them create better workplace cultures, and helping them create workspaces that are so amazing that people will never want to quit, places that people crave working.
Once you become a member of the community, you will find two types of content. Standard content where we will explore big leadership ideas that are worth considering and thinking about. The premium content is where the magic takes place. These will be specific action items you can do that will make your culture better.
I know you are thinking it is gonna be expensive. Nope, almost, but not quite, free. $8.00 a month or $80 a year.
The reason it is so reasonably priced is that we want you, as a leader, to make it available to all the leaders in your organization. The C-suite, regional directors, executive directors, and department heads.
I know you are thinking, “I can save a little money by simply copying it and sending it to my team members.” You could, but you shouldn’t for two reasons:
The Big One: Over time, you will forget to pass it on, and nothing will change. By purchasing it for each of your leaders it will have an impact that is worth … I don’t know 1,000 times what you paid, 10,000 times what you paid, something like that.
The second reason is that it’s not the right thing to do. I and the entire Foresight team work really hard to create content for you, content that will help your organization be better and make more money.
You don’t have to worry. If I find out you are redistributing, I won’t come after you. I won’t say anything to anyone. In fact, what I will assume is that your organization is in terrible shape, that you can only afford $8 a month, that this is your last ditch effort to save your organization … and it could do that.
I will be proud to be a part of that
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