Navigating Your Approach to Leadership
By Jim Boneau
What if I told you that you should be the smartest person in the room? That you should lead with a heavy dose of direction? That you should take your hands off the steering wheel and let your employees drive for a while? That building strong connections and understanding yourself would best serve your organization? My guess is that you would think that these “leadership styles” seem contradictory, and that one or more of them caused you to flinch a bit. Read on…
For the last ten years I have had the good fortune of working with hundreds, perhaps thousands of senior leaders in many different parts of the world. I am grateful for the insight this experience has given me. It has put a face to large organizations and granted me an honest look inside, into the very real life of its leaders. It is a life filled with the stress of market and business demands, the waves of personal and professional triumphs and defeats, and the inner struggle all of us face in dealing with the inevitable pain that accompanies our human experience. 
