What are some of the biggest challenges you see
leaders facing today?
Well, the thing that comes to mind most prominently for me
is a poem, this is gonna sound rather poetic,
but it's true, a poem that my grandmother gave me
by Rudyard Kipling.
Okay.
I believe the title of it is If,
and it's about being a man.
Okay.
But the first line is,
if you can keep your wits about you and those around you
are losing theirs.
And I think that's the number one challenge for a leader
is with all the twists and turns that happen in business
is trying to remain grounded and thoughtful
and to respond versus react to challenges in business.
Yes.
But that also goes into personally
because being a leader is like being a parent,
which you may have experiences with both,
but there's the commonality in that the kids
can get frustrated and act out and be angry,
but you as a leader have to try to remember,
wait a minute, I'm the leader
and not let their stress impact you
such that you lose your cool and start doing it
saying things you later regret.
Absolutely.
I think that I would just say that for leaders
to not leak their stress to their employees,
I think employees are also
desiring more from their employers
Yes.
in terms of level of support
or how much people wanna be bringing themselves to work,
which I think has many advantages,
but it's also a challenge for leaders to figure out
how to support people, but where is the boundary
or supporting people versus feeling like
you're having to provide therapy for people
in the workplace where the focus gets away from the work
and where's the balance.