What are the limits of leadership?

Leadership is limited through two factors:

1-The stunting of the leader's growth. Growth can be stunted through a variety of ways. Here are two of them:

Traumatic encounters: Just as traumatic brain injury requires an induced coma to promote healing, traumatic relationships can send one into a leadership coma. Are your relationships toxic? Do you absorb a high degree of toxicity on a daily basis, in your relationships? You could be headed head-long into a traumatic encounter. Also, the constant reliance on crisis management to fix problems can become a traumatic encounter over time. Fighting the tyranny of the urgent with discipined thought and action takes a paradigm shift into a culture of discipline.

The limits on the leader's learning: Maxwell calls this the "Law of the Lid:" one cannot lead beyond one's ability to grow. Is growth programmed into your reading plan? Do you have mentors above you to challenge you? (in the MLM world, these are called "uplines")

2-Followers are not really followers:

Resistance to change: If you are leading and there is no one following you, then you are just taking a stroll! Resistance to change in most groups follows a normal "bell" curve. If change is not wanted, change will not occur.

If you have any further thoughts on this, please feel free to weigh on the subject.

peace out!

sp