[오늘의 한문장] Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge

Set a boundary on your tendency to be a "closed system," and open yourself to outside inputs that bring you energy and guidance.

[오늘의 한문장] Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge

No one else can set these boundaries for you. All great leaders know, or come to recognize, that they must do it for themselves that is, if they want to be the kind of leaders who sustain themselves, over the course of many years and through all sorts of change and upheaval.

[오늘의 한문장] Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge

There is a law of leadership physics that affects many leaders without their being aware of it, and it can do them in if they are not careful. But if they are, they can soar. The law is this: the higher you go in leadership, the fewer external forces act upon you and dictate your focus, energy, and direction. Instead you set the terms of engagement and direct your own path, with only the reality of results to push against you.

[오늘의 한문장] Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge

One of the most powerful practices a team can use is to "observe themselves." We know why this works in the operational arenas as teams regularly look at their numbers and their performance and make adjustments. But what I am talking about is a different kind of observation. It is the practice of the team observing "how it is working."

[오늘의 한문장] Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge

A covenant is a promise to perform. I like to see teams come together and make covenants to behave in certain ways, similar to the list of values I shared above. If you go back and read the language there, they listed active verbs that showed clearly how they covenant to behave with one another. When they fulfill those covenants, their values will be realized and their objectives met.