Last July, I wrote a post about the dancing man (a popular YouTube video), and some leadership lessons from it. This morning I read (and saw) Derek Siver’s TED talk from this week based on the same video.
(If you would like to read the transcript of Derek’s talk, you can find it here.)
Derek makes excellent points here about the role of a leader and the role of followers – including the importance of the first follower. this all gets at an important message for us as leaders . . .
Leadership isn’t a role. We are only leading if someone is following.
All of us with the title of leader, or manager, or supervisor, or executive (etc.) should read this daily.
Look around. Are people following?
If so, are you leading in the direction of your vision?
And if no one is following, ask yourself, why not?
Which suggests a second important leadership lesson . . .
Leadership, at its best is about the followers.
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