Comments on: What’s Wrong When You’re Always Right?

By: Karl Edwards

Karl Edwards — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:25:11 +0000

Bradley,
From past comments of yours, I’m sure you’re a pretty effective leader when it comes to valuing the input of others. I’ll bet your self-challenge served you quite well.

What’s interesting to me is why so many leaders overlook, are not willing to risk, or simply do not yet know how to draw out the value and commitment to which you point that others bring to the table. There’s a lot of value and commitment being checked at the door!

By: Karl Edwards

Karl Edwards — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:18:02 +0000

Ellen,
I especially appreciate the way you teach us to teach our brains. Even in your comment above, we aren’t passive victims of our brain’s hard-wiring or robots taking orders from a computer in our head over which we have no control.

We are learning, maturing, developing beings, and sometimes all we need is some training in a skill we don’t yet have. Like how to draw out quiet or opposing voices in a meeting, or how to give an idea form and move it forward from concept to implementation. Thank you.

By: Bradley J. Moore

Bradley J. Moore — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:44:23 +0000

Yes, that is absolutely the worst. The leader gets a much better result too by engaging the team of participants… and more commitment to the end result, as opposed to being “told what to do.”

Good challenge to watch how I handle myself today…

By: Ellen Weber

Ellen Weber — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:02:58 +0000

Great angle you added to this topic and thanks for your kind mention, Karl. As I read your post I thought of the many leaders who do this in meetings because they lack skills to draw the group’s voices together and move a collective vision forward.

Sadly, I’ve also been at meetings where people toss in great ideas and after a great discussion we have no structure within which to move an idea into improved practice. Hopefully we can all keep talking about this topic until skills are adopted and groups move toward winning peaks together! Thanks for the inspiration!