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| For every Chris Albrecht, former Chairman and CEO of HBO fired this week after being charged for assaulting a girlfriend in a Las Vegas parking lot (I guess not everything stays in Vegas!), there are scores of leaders whose lack of clarity in thought, emotion, and behavior are undermining their ability to effectively lead. While not assaulting people under the legal definition of assault, they emotionally and verbally abuse, rage, deceive, manipulate, succumb to addictions, and do all kinds of other things that interfere with their ability to clearly define themselves, be a people-oriented person, create a values-based core in their organizations, and really engage a team in the pursuit of the organizational objective. At the end of the day, one cannot effectively lead others if he or she cannot effectively lead himself or herself. |
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| I have known hundreds of leaders who ultimately blew up, or at least rendered themselves ineffective, because their behavior was distorted by some fear-based stimulus, usually something buried deep within them since childhood. They acted out of anger, rage, envy, insecurity, guilt, or greed. Sometimes these behaviors resided squarely in their persona. More often, they resided in their shadows. They were sex addicts. They lied. They cheated. They undermined others. We were born with clarity of thought, emotion, and behavior, but somewhere along the way that clarity becomes distorted. Again, it usually happens in our childhoods, and is caused by our parents, sometimes inadvertently by well-intentioned ones, and sometimes recklessly by abusive ones. If we clear it out, we do fine. If we don't, our relationships usually blow up. And leadership is, by definition, relationship. |
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