Today a client told me he was planning to wait to take on a bully on his team. The leader before him had waited. The leader before him had waited too. And, I’m quite certain, the leader before all three of them had simply looked away. Normal. Remember, all around the world of work, we’ve got posing, positional leaders who are suffering from a failure of nerve.
Today, I didn’t ask my client a curious question to further understand the tough predicament in which he’s been placed. I told him the unvarnished truth about the proper time to take on a bully in his system. Now, in fact, is the only time to take on a bully. In the moment, face to face, ccd, and tough. Your bully’s behavior doesn’t get better over time and through some kinda placating. Your bully’s behavior is your problem if you’re a positional leader where one lives. It doesn’t matter if you inherited him, if he’s indispensible, or if you’re afraid he might hurt you through sabotage or by going to a competitor – it’s your job to eliminate bullying kinda behavior even when it hurts.
Lead anything and you’re gonna encounter a bully. You gotta be tough in the moment of truth; tender, not so much. This is another why behind building your strong CORE. A strong CORE gives you what money can’t buy and positional power alone can’t provide. A strong CORE supports your spine and allows you, in your moment of truth, to stand. Weak, posers are everywhere. You’ll notice them waiting, politicing, pontificating, and seeking some kinda soft, solution in the middle because they are, in their moment, suffering from a failure of nerve.
Are you?
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