The last couple of years have presented some significant challenges for leaders. Many have hunkered down and isolated themselves.
In the Summer of 2021, prolific leadership guru and author penned Leading in Tough Times: Overcome Even the Greatest Challenges with Courage and Confidence. Maxwell noted, “Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”
Tough times provide an invitation to opportunity. In Life’s Greatest Lessons, Hal Urban writes, “Once we accept the fact that life is hard, we begin to grow. We begin to understand that every problem is also an opportunity.”
Nothing worth having in life comes without effort. That is why psychiatrist M. Scott Peck begins his book The Road Less Traveled with the words “Life is difficult.” If we don’t understand and accept the truth that life is difficult, that leadership is difficult, then we set ourselves up for failure and we won’t learn or succeed.
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