" Stop playing it safe. Take your team where you have never been before "
Your leadership skills will be tested when you're taking your team, organiza-
tion or business in new and uncharted directions in pursuit of
Some large and audacious goals. Too many leaders are too cautious and conservative to
do this and will find every imaginable reason to explain why such goals are
impossible to achieve.
Successful leaders are quite different and never suppress their boldness, pas-
sion, audacity and daring. They use these things to excite, energize and moti-
vate people (including themselves) to tackle even the most impossible looking
goals. You can always spot such leaders as the ones who:
• Are willing to create and focus on extraordinary goals that might seem like
pipe dreams to others
•Turn ordinary teams into extraordinary team players who are happy to
commit to challenges that would overwhelm most people.
EXAMPLE:
Elon Musk is an example of a leader who consistently acts in this bold and
daring way. You can see this in all of his projects and businesses including in
his plans to colonize Mars, to create re-usable vertical landing rockets and to
build the world's largest lithium-ion storage system in South Australia in a
self-imposed short time-frame. Not every leader has the personality. ambition
or inclination to become an Elon Musk, but all successful leaders do develop in their own
way, the skills of thinking big and encouraging others to follow suit.
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