THE LEADERSHIP GAP: WHAT GETS BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR GREATNESS
Lolly Daskal, executive coach for his work, has found that leaders can improve on themselves and their results from identifying their distinctive leadership archetype and recognizing its own shadow. People are inclined to cover their very own default option and address difficult situations in ways that worked for them in resolving the matter, the worst strategy. Humans are receptive to change adaptation is really important to achieve one’s peak point in today’s changing world. Among the many reasons why many leaders get stuck is because they rely on what’s worked for them in the past even when it is no longer working.
On the flip side, fantastic leaders look for opportunities to learn and develop to serve the people they lead a lot better. Daskal, in her book, explores the seven archetypes of professionals by diving into why each exhibit abilities and corresponding expansion blocking gaps. She further provides the readers with guidance as they voluntarily seek to spot the negative and positive traits that are important within themselves. From this section, readers earn clarity into the potency and the fighting part of their leadership style and how to better adapt and pursue success as a leader. The writer focuses on seven leadership archetypes that are:
- The Rebel: somebody who’s driven by confidence backed up by proficiency.
- The Explorer: somebody who’s fueled by intuition. The Truth Teller: somebody who embraces candor.
- The Hero: somebody who’s courageous.
- The Inventor: Someone teeming with ethics.
- The Navigator: somebody who trusts and is trusted.
- The Knight: Someone whose loyalty is everything.
Everybody fits to the leadership gap. These gaps, when entirely concentrated on, leads us into the shadow side and tends to manifest itself by overuse of your strength. This evolves from the thought where leaders and workers are urged to concentrate only on their strength. Ones we have the ability to accept your power with the darkest part without bias, we may start to make a path ahead.
The author sees the leadership gap as the most successful victim of their very own success and struggles except they identify and comprehend what they really need to know. No person is perfect, but we may be the best version of ourselves. And being the best version of yourself comes along with us, recognizing our leadership gaps, use our knowledge in a new way and also stay in our bliss. A leader can be both even a collapse and an unbelievable victory. By understanding this, you are able to take charge of your very own fate and that of your staff or organization by merely identifying your gaps and finding the solutions to overcome them.
To conclude, being a leader is difficult, as well as a leader, you’ll find yourself in dark and difficult times. In these conditions, you now have what you want to choose the light over the darkness by making use of the leadership archetype the situation needs. The rebel, explorer, truth teller, hero, inventor, navigator, and knight; we have them all in us.
THE BIG THREE – KEYPOINTS
Key point #1: To get to our greatness, we have to leverage our gaps
Key point #2: Who we are is affected by the choices we make.
Key point #3: Greatness is available to all of us. We just have to choose it.
One Last Thing
“Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.”
― Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness