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October,
2005 Welcome
to Leadership Hand™, a monthly e-newsletter To ensure receipt, please add our e-mail address "Info@" plus our domain name to your e-mail address book. 1. Star Performers: Arrogance or a Greater Beauty When the flowers arrived, they were exquisite in their individual beauty--a glass vase filled with single stems. Overnight, the pale yellow roses and soft white peonies transformed themselves unfolding, filling out--absolutely breathtaking. They were not the same arrogant flowers that had arrived the day before. If we are a star performer, we can be like that. We're a little too wrapped up in ourselves to make a whole. There's an unspoken declaration: "Look at me!" and "I know best!" We stand proud, resolute. But singly. In our minds, we win or we lose depending on whether others'--my peers, other divisions, my bosses--buy into my solution. There's frustration even demoralization if they don't. Meanwhile, we use this as evidence to reinforce our obvious brilliance and their inability to see. I knew this stance too well. As I matured, I began to experience the power of the bigger arrangement: my team and those influencing us. And that is exactly when my ability to lead started to flourish. I shifted from the arrogance of driving forward with what I assumed best to influencing and eliciting our best from my team and our stakeholders.
Here's to Your
Greater Beauty and Power, Beth Hand © Copyright 2007, Beth Hand. Beth Hand, MBA helps leaders increase their effectiveness and satisfaction, now and for the future. She can be reached at (+1) 703.820.8074 or via her website www.leadershiphand.com. 2. Reprint Permission This is a copyrighted publication. You are welcome to reprint an issue on a non-exclusive basis provided you:
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