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In this article, the writer explains about consulting executive teaching where he has come across dozens of internal conflicts between knowing and executing. Leadership Review First Lead Yourself read
He provides our long list of behaviors: micromanaging direct reports; procrastinating; not following through on commitments; making tactless remarks; insisting on always being right to overreacting and expressing inappropriate anger; finding fault with others and being outwardly critical; not celebrating appreciating others’ accomplishments; not listening to me; talking too much; not staying focused; and showing impatience such as interrupting others (Daft, 2012).
The Chief Executive Officer and the elephant. The writer calls one part of the brain the inner elephant because of the strength of its reactions unconscious impulses, is emotional drives, and lifelong habits.
The new assistant represents intentional, reasoning, thoughtful, and largely conscious mind (Daft, 2012). Recognize your two parts. See table 12.1 page 128. The elephant part of the brain is always on hand is subject to instant reaction.
The elephant is always scanning the environmental threats and of resisting things it dislikes. Negativity lies is a term used in psychology which describes how our minds can be chewed to perceived bad things more readily than good things. Likewise, the elephant will resist, postpone and procrastinate when facing an unwanted task.
How to start leaving yourself?
Simply recognizing the two parts is a step toward building up the CEO part of your brain.
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Works Cited
Contemporary Issues in Leadership. (2012). Boulder: Westview Press. Daft, R. L. (2012).
First, Lead Yourself. In R. L. Daft, Contemporary Issues in Leadership (pp. 125 – 133). Boulder: Westview Press.
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