Washington DC
A favorite statesman of mine said, "When you have two persons in a room, you do not have two, you have six: what each person is, what each person thinks he or she is; and what each person thinks the other is."
This remark says a great deal about what eludes many clueless people in leadership positions these days. It's the ability and willingness to be both participants AND observers in their own leadership and of their own environments.
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A favorite statesman of mine said, "When you have two persons in a room, you do not have two, you have six: what each person is, what each person thinks he or she is; and what each person thinks the other is."
This remark says a great deal about what eludes many clueless people in leadership positions these days. It's the ability and willingness to be both participants AND observers in their own leadership and of their own environments.
To be and to see on multiple levels in real time and beyond oneself are core attributes of effective leaders who possess healthy levels of self-awareness and self-regulation. This simultaneous "being and seeing" describe very well what it means to be emotionally intelligent and to lead well in complexity.
We are going to pay a very big price for the suffocating lack of emotional intelligence in selfish, ill-suited and undeveloped leaders on display in this town and elsewhere. The path for successful leaders starts with being successful human beings.
