Leadership Challenges Today: The Leadership Attention Deficit Disorder

A Leader's primary role is to ensure that a group of people produce a desired outcome. To accomplish this goal, a leader must encourage their team by setting a clear vision. The vision may be a short-term goal, such as a meeting agenda, or a long-term goal such as a five year plan. No matter what the goal, the vision is essential for motivating a team and getting others on board. Some leaders, however, appear to suffer from LADD - Leadership Attention Deficit Disorder.

Leadership Attention Deficit Disorder often manifests itself in three different ares:

Leading Difficult People

Leading difficult people can be like herding cats. No matter what you do, they won't follow you. You have goals to accomplish but certain people just aren't interested in what you are trying to achieve. They want to do things their own way and often seem to just ignore you. We have all experienced this. The good news, however, is that people aren't cats. And, we don't have to just force people to comply with our wishes. There is an easier way. Casting a clear vision as leaders helps us facilitate team progress in the most challenging of circumstances.

Leadership HacksAdam WitmerFebruary 4, 2014herding cats, leading difficult people, leadership

Vision Casting; An Essential To Leadership

Vision casting is often viewed as the job of the CEO. Like a head coach, the CEO sets the direction of an organization and then spends a great amount of energy ensuring that their team also understands and works for the vision. Vision casting, however, isn't limited to CEOs. Great leadership, regardless of a title or position, involves effective vision casting.

You Are Your Primary Advocate

I once heard an author talking about all of the ideas he gets pitched by non-authors who want him

Change Management, Leadership HacksAdam WitmerJanuary 26, 2014vision casting, leadership

Radical Leadership: The 4 R's of a Radical Leader

Leadership looks different today than it did just a decade ago. In years past, a leader’s authority was often derived from his or her special skill or expertise. Because a leader had a special skill (or inside knowledge), he was able to take an authoritarian my-way-or-the-high-way leadership style. In just a few short decades, all of that has changed. No longer can leaders rely solely on special information or expertise as a leadership advantage. Thanks to Google, information is just too easy to come by. The internet has leveled the playing field so much that newer generations are demanding a radical new kind of leadership. Organizations need radical leaders.

There are four R's to radical leadership:

Change Management, Leadership HacksAdam WitmerDecember 4, 2013Leadership, Change, Innovation

Get Ahead With Business Street Smarts

Everywhere we go, we hear the message that to get ahead in life, we need to have a formal education. The more formal education we receive, the more we will excel in our professional careers. Unfortunately, this has become true in many industries that once allowed you to start a career and enter a new profession, regardless of your formal education.

With the costs of higher education spiraling out of control, many young adults are now finding that advanced education is not an option. The good news is that pursuing formal education is not the only thing that can get you ahead in a career.

Leadership HacksAdam WitmerNovember 25, 2013business, education, leadership

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