There’s been plenty published on the insidious imposter syndrome and how it can play with your head with thoughts like those above.
If you can look at it not for how you perceive that it reflects on your own competence, but rather, what it means that your team can deliver for the organisation.
The first thing to say is that mankind has been behaving badly since time began. It’s now just more obvious because we’re exposed to other people’s stories through social and other sources of media. You know when you buy a yellow car, how suddenly all you’re seeing are yellow cars? We see what we focus on, so if you start looking for idiots, that’s what you’ll find.
All of this same same simply perpetuates what we already know. It doesn’t prepare us for what is coming. It doesn’t give diversity of thought.
The dictionary defines it as a “firm decision to do or not do something.” I like that. It speaks of thoughtfulness and resolve. That is, you take the time to think about things and then make a firm decision one way or another.
I am not discounting that this stuff can be difficult, but I think we make it more difficult that it needs to be. Just start. Anywhere. Movement begets movement. Progress begets progress. Growth begets growth.
This time of year is notorious for having to do the social rounds.. Often, these conversations are just variations on a theme. “How are you
Of course the difficult conversations are by nature, the ones that we try to avoid (and rationalise with ourselves why we are avoiding it). So,
Every day when my eldest daughter comes home from school I ask: “good day? bad day? happy day? sad day?”. This year, I think all
How to become a better leader I came across this in my newsfeed – 12 talks on how to be a better leader. And they’re
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