THOUGHTS ON LEADERSHIP #4 - FOCUS YOUR TIME.

Early in my career, when I was given my first opportunity in a leadership position, it was a total disaster. Fortunately, I learned much from that failure. It taught me more about what leadership is (or isn't) than I ever learned in school or had observed in the corporate world. I made the false assumption that my role was to be fighting every battle to the death. No issue was too small or big, I needed to win at all costs, I felt the need to be the lead of every project, be in every meeting, have my DNA on everything. That behavior could not be further from the truth as a leader and is destructive to you and your team.

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