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       LEADERS FARE BETTER BY THINKING TOGETHER
       By: IMPACT360 Date: November 28, 2014, 4:57 am
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       He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a
       master.
       ~ Ben Johnson
       He who builds to every man’s advice will have a
       crooked house.
       ~ Danish Proverb
       The twin dangers for a leader are to refuse advice
       from anyone or to take advice from everyone.
       Smart leaders navigate between these two
       extremes, selectively choosing people from whom
       to seek input and counsel. The success of a leader
       depends on the quality of questions she asks and
       the caliber of person to whom she asks them.
       Young leaders often believe they need to have all
       the answers. No matter how far out of their
       expertise a matter may fall, they feel obligated to
       supply an answer in order to validate their position
       of authority. However, the “fake it ‘til you make it”
       approach to leadership seldom works. When you’re
       ignorant about something, you eventually won’t
       fake it well and others will be able to tell you’re a
       phony.
       A leader’s job is not to know everything but to
       attract people who know things that he or she
       does not. Great thinkers do not birth brilliant ideas
       in isolation. Rather, they form their thoughts
       through interaction and communication with
       others. Shared thinking matures the mind by
       allowing people to access experiences and
       perspectives that they do not personally possess.
       As people bounce ideas off one another, they
       inspire a higher level of thought than is possible
       through solo thinking.
       Shared thinking is faster than solo thinking. When
       we try to find the way alone, we fail to recognize
       dead-ends, and we take unnecessary detours.
       Relying on our own wisdom, we suffer delays that
       could easily be avoided by simply inquiring into
       the experiences of others instead of slogging down
       the slow road of trial-and-error by ourselves.
       Shared thinking is more innovative than solo
       thinking. We tend to think of great thinkers and
       inventors as soloists, but the truth is that the
       greatest innovative thinking doesn’t occur in a
       vacuum. Innovation results from collaboration. At
       the beginning, no idea is great. A great idea results
       from the synergetic interactions of several good
       ideas.
       Shared thinking returns greater value than solo
       thinking. Not only does shared thinking generate
       stronger solutions and better strategies, it’s
       personally rewarding as well. The higher you go up
       in leadership, the more you realize that true
       significance and success are found by setting
       aside personal ambition for the sake of a common
       vision.
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