Expertise Alone Does Not Make You a Leader

Insight #325:

A lioness charged me. Once.

Let me assure you, once is enough. The experience changed me.

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For one thing, it gave me an insight into leadership, an insight that matters much today. So let me explain.

Has a lioness ever charged you? No? Well, I guess that makes me the expert. And if a lioness suddenly appeared in your life, you will look to me for expert advice.

But the real question is this. Will you do what I say?

That, after all, is leadership. People look to you AND they follow you.

There you have it. The leadership insight I gained in the African bush. Just because I am the relative expert on charging lionesses does not make me the absolute expert.

Nor does it make me a leader.

Unless your trust in me, my expertise, overcomes your fear, your natural inclination to run, you won’t do what I say. You won’t follow my lead.

And as you will discover too late, it is not a good idea to run from a lioness.

Nor from your leadership problems. Not if others look to you because they need to follow you.

Welcome to my side of the nonsense divide.

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