Leadership is a Lifestyle

When I went from being a member of the team to leading the team, I thought the transition would be easy.

I’ll just do everything I was doing, and more.

At first, I did my best to maintain this. I had a failure that taught me directly that the and more part is the hardest part - it’s so hard that it is better to drop the was doing part.

Focusing on the and more part, which I learn is leadership.

Leadership as a topic is continually changing. Some of the best practices of the past are almost seen with disdain now. Some are so fundamentally true that some consider them to be leadership commandments.

My journey to leadership has different paths, from getting my MBA, being a Toastmasters Club President in Germany, running training for the Red Cross for all incoming volunteers, organizing a meetup group, setting program for the company’s lunch and learn, to actually leading a team for work.

Those are the visible leadership activities - there’s countless books and articles I read to be a leader.

Now I realize, leadership is a lifestyle and not something I can “do once, next!”