Leadership Fatigue

December 15th, 2010 @ admin

Are you experiencing Leadership Fatigue?  Either as a leader who is focused on adapting to the current market place conditions or a follower who is being lead by a leader experiencing fatigue.  There is a lot of this going around at the moment.

I am noticing business leaders and executives demonstrate fatigue because 1. so much of what they have been doing is not working as well as they would like and 2. what they know how to do, is not producing the results that are expected of them. This most commonly shows up as “things not moving fast enough” and “resources dwindling”.  It also shows up with not having the “right people on board” or not being able to “retain the talent” needed to be successful.  The call to action or the opportunity here is that you need to revisit what your market wants of you … like now.  I would go back to your key customers and ask them how their needs have changed and how you might be able to assist them today; in the next 90 days to be specific.

From the followers point of view, people in the organizations doing the work; this is experienced primarily in the form of frustration.  Resources are limited and you are asked to do more with less.  This is becoming common and is not that bad a request as we are going through tougher times to some extent.  The bigger issue is frustration over ever changing strategies that don’t necessarily work, because the leadership has not figured out the winning formulas yet. Are you relating to this?  I believe if this is happening to you, there is an opportunity for you to “Step-up” and help the leadership with feed back and constructive input to rectify that which is not working.  Demonstrate practical leadership (the 5th D’Souza Principle, in the book) and be a positive influence on the organization.  Whining is so not productive folks.

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