Good Leaders Know You Can’t Fight Reality

Good Leaders Know You Can’t Fight Reality

Scott Edinger | Harvard Business Review

Good Leaders Know You Can’t Fight Reality

Scott Edinger | Harvard Business Review | 2021

The ability to accept reality is one of the most useful, and most misunderstood, skills for a leader. It’s a concept that has been around for centuries in philosophy and more recently in psychology, and properly applied can help drive change. Acceptance may not sound like a hugely valuable skill, especially because we hear so much about leaders whose force of will seems to defy reality. As a result, most of the poor leadership behaviour I’ve observed has its roots in the inability to accept and work within the boundaries of what is happening, or the circumstances as they are.

To request this article from the Library email here or try this link if you have not exhausted your free view article quota with HBR

Edinger, S. (2021). Good leaders know you cant fight reality. Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2021/10/good-leaders-know-you-cant-fight-reality

Share: