Leadership

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one minute wonder How well balanced is the time you spend at both home and work? If work dominates, what home activities are suffering? How much do these activities enrich your life? When you’re on your deathbed, will you be grateful for the extra hours you put in at the office?

A wonderful boss I had when I was just starting work told me: “You never get something for nothing. Everything has a price.” Over the years his words have stayed with me. Do what you want to do, but be willing to pay the price for it.

The work-life balance website agrees: “Achievement and enjoyment are the front and back of the coin of value in life. You can’t have one without the other, no more than you can have a coin with only one side. Trying to live a one-sided life is why so many ‘successful’ people are not happy, or not nearly as happy as they should be.”

Yes, the organization and you have a responsibility to help employees achieve a balance. But we all have an individual responsibility to ourselves to ensure that our personal needs and wants are met.

A work-life balance will constantly change according to different factors in your home and working life.

Leadership responsibilities (#ulink_d66b00cf-1b3e-5e18-8bb9-06a8981eb668)

Is leadership different from management? My conviction is that it is. A company appoints a leader because it has expectations. This chapter begins by clarifying those expectations and examining how to deliver against them. We then explore the range of behaviours required in a leader – taking command one moment, then demonstrating genuine humility the next, employing the right approach that restores a team to its previous effectiveness.

2.1 Transform the abstract into concrete (#ulink_5adc74c0-76d6-5829-b49a-50547358c508)

Leadership theories are everywhere – the Internet, books, television. But let’s ignore the experts’ theories for a moment and get back to the basics. Let’s look at what your company wants from you. After all, they’re the ones paying your salary.

Companies have expectations of their leaders. I believe their expectations are usually that you will deliver the following:

1 Look to the future and anticipate how you think things will look. Can you describe it out loud to someone? What challenges will there be in this future?