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5 Difficult Things All Leaders Must Learn To Do
And how to do them right
Leadership is easy.
Only joking. It’s hard. It’s bloody hard!
But there are ways you can make it easier. This starts with finding a way to be comfortable in discomfort.
This means overcoming a lot of natural impulses to run from or avoid difficult tasks. And this starts with giving them the time and attention they deserve.
There’s a long list of things that every leader will need to learn how to do. A lot of these aren’t easy and they aren’t fun. But they are necessary.
#1. Getting the Right People in
Hire the wrong person and they can quickly do a lot of damage to an established culture.
Isn’t someone better than no one? Probably not, no. The truth is a smaller team of dedicated and cohesive personalities will beat a larger but disjointed team nine times out of ten.
So what to do?
Take the time to get good at hiring. It goes beyond CVs and experience.
In the interview, establish contextual examples of scenarios they’re likely to face and see how the person reacts. Ask for actual examples…
