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EXPERIENCEdoes
LEADERSHIPequate
sound familiar to anyone?• knows everything about anything• first to run down your ideas • famous quotes include: “I have DECADES
of experience under my belt” “I have consumed
more salt than You
did with rice!” (it’s an Asian thing) “you were still drinking from the milk bottle when I was doing your
job!”
while these messages are supposed to instill respect and secure that individual's leadership position, most times… the messages that gets conjured up (if any at all)…
“I have DECADES of experience under my belt”
“I have consumed
more salt than You
did with rice!” (it’s an Asian thing) “you were still drinking from the milk bottle when I was doing your
job!”
High cholesterol
I still don’t know what is the point to this one
Huge Waist
so does experience = good leaders?
here’s a thought: When a person have had ‘experienced’, especially time and time again at a specific activity (like work), what the person gained, which we loosely termed as ‘experience’, is simply
another perspective.
Thus an experienced person (not leader, we will get there) will come with multiple perspectives; Good, Bad, dated or otherwise, regardless.
But experienced leaders would come with, not just multiple perspectives, gained through the years, but also with their hearts and eyes opened, wanting to get more perspectives.
And true leaders would never fear, in trading their perspectives, for new, relevant or even those that are unheard of; as that is what fuels them,
the need for a different perspective.
so does experience = good leaders?
Of course it does.
But it doesn’t come with - a large waist- high cholesterol - or whatever that is, which I still can’t figure out what the point was. .