Leadership: Inventing Success

As a leader, imagine a world where everyone who works with you is an "A" player. By this I mean people come up with great ideas and find a way to implement them, they produce significant results for the team and the list goes on.

In their book "The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life", Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander explore this imagined world by suggesting that we give each person an A . According to Zander and Zander "when you give an A, you find yourself speaking to people not from a place of measuring how they a stack up against your standards, but from a place of respect that gives them room to realize themselves."

Imagine telling everyone that you believe they are the very best. Then talk about what being the very best means to them. Ask them how you can help them be their very best. So often we as leaders we don't take the time to actually talk and get to know people. We make assumptions that what works for us works for everyone else. That's when we get into trouble.

So imagine your world full of A players. What assumptions are you making now? How have your conversations changed? What is being generated in your mind, tone of voice and expectations of that person and vice versa?

Invent that world of A players by giving everyone an A.

Barb... The Leadership Lady