Learn To Change

This might be controversial, but…

Bad leaders need to go. 

I was a bad leader at one point in my career. I wasn't doing a good job in leading my team, my company, or myself.

So I did what any self respecting leader would do. I made a bold move—a hard, difficult, change.

I fired everyone and started from scratch.

But change is hard. It doesn't happen right away. It takes discipline. It takes multiple attempts.

So I did it again. I said yes to change. I fired all the people I had just brought in.

I continued this until I knew I had changed, until the change stuck. Where before I was only saying yes to change, I was now hearing yes all around me: in emails, in meetings, after telling staff my ideas. My hard work paid off.

So if you're feeling like you may be a bad leader, remember: keep saying yes to change until change says yes back to you.


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