What this high-potential front line manager described is a macro challenge faced daily by not just him many leaders. The reality of the situation is that he didn’t have to choose one or the other. He had to commit to both. As a leader, he is responsible for the people who are responsible for the results.
Are you leading others the correct way? If you don’t know about the importance of love and discipline in your leadership style, you might be making a huge mistake.
For your team to understand how much you care about them, you must reject the notion that words hold great power. In this case, talk is cheap. Your power comes from your actions.
If you want to be a great leader it is going to take discipline. Which is the willingness and the ability to sacrifice what you want now for what you want more later on.
While most of the best leaders have an idea they are great, I have found there to be a group of leaders who are unaware of how great of a job they are doing.
A leaders ability to lead with high levels of both love and discipline, simultaneously, or in what we call “the Welding Zone.”
