If not for you
You still encounter top executives that think the entire world of business revolves around them. They are big on ‘I’ statements and they behave as if any form of consensus is a weakness. On just about every issue they can be heard expounding a ‘first position’ view.First position is fine but leaders of real influence are those that try to see things from second and third position too. Second position is where someone else is coming from, and third position is the objective ‘fly on the wall’ perspective.
In maturity terms these people have usually moved from dependency through to independence, hence the “I can arrange this” or “I know what to do with this” or “I will sort him out”
Real maturity however, goes one step further and that is to interdependence. People who operate at this level know that they cannot do it alone. However much talent and energy and intellect they possess, they still add up to one. They say, “How do you think we should tackle this?” or “What shall we do in this situation?”
These people don’t pay lip service, they really do believe that it takes more than ‘I’ for one and one to make three or even four.
It takes you too.
posted by Tim @ 10:40 AM
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