Day #818 - Long Chains
And your Leadership
Later this week I’m running a workshop on ‘Creative Tensions’, which I’m very much looking forward to. Whilst it will just be myself and Catherine in the room, all sorts of people are involved in the run up in all sorts of ways. In this sense, the ‘performance’ is just the final act at the end of a long sequence of events.
Consider this in your own leadership: sometimes you have a team, or an Organisation, that exists to deliver you right where you need to be, with everything you need to do the job, at exactly the right time. Other times you are the one working towards a moment of performance that someone else holds.
For some of us, our leadership is all about that supporting role: not the leader on the stage, or at the front, but supporting those who perform. And sometimes we simply create the space and conditions in which the whole system can operate.
The contexts of our leadership are diverse, and whilst some of us will move fluidly between spaces, others focus on one part of that dynamic system.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider where you stand, and all the other people in that chain.
Do you know them all? Do they know you? And if so, in what way? As a person, or a link in an operating model?
To be interconnected within the system, to know people both as part of process and tribe, gives a different model of resilience and performance. As well as a different experience of culture.
