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Nine Things Great Managers Learn to Quit Caring About
When your responsibilities expand, your focus should narrow
Most leadership advice tells you what you need to learn. But the best leaders recognise there’s value in what they unlearn too.
It’s easy to become obsessed with things that look and feel like management. Things like being right, looking decisive, and symbols of your status.
Until you realise it’s your focus on these very things that’s stunting your growth and making your life as a leader much harder than it needs to be. Because the best leaders learn to focus on what’s optimal.
The longer I’m in leadership, the less trivial things I care about.
Stop caring about signals and start focusing on substance.
Winning every argument
Always getting your way isn’t influence. Left unchecked, it’s tyranny. And self-defeating.
You shouldn’t want to know everything, nor always be right, nor be the smartest person in the room. Growth and learning are the lifeblood of the leader.
Every argument you win is a potential learning opportunity missed.
