At our recent Courageous Leaders Facilitator Community meeting one of our facilitators – Jonathan- shared an interesting insight from his latest research…..that standing still is the new going backwards. We all resoundingly went “oh yes”!
Courageous Leaders know very well that change is the new constant as we shared in our recent Research and Insights paper – and that standing still is just not an option. To think of it as going backwards is a critical insight – every leader has a responsibility to keep learning and keep challenging their habits. I don’t believe we have enough existing leaders prepared to do this – what’s your experience?
Defensiveness sees leaders protecting themselves with their cage of habits and this weighs them down so they DO stand still. The younger emerging leaders keep moving and this is one of the reasons they just keep on moving – out of the business and off to somewhere they can thrive on change.
We need far more courageous leaders igniting and thriving on change!
