As you get higher in leadership positions, like the problems get harder. Any decision you're going to make is going to leave somebody unhappy just because of all the trade offs. I think a key skill of leadership is to be able to compartmentalize and keep everything in perspective. Some people are so good at compartmentalizing that they have no empathy for other people.
Adam Bryant shares powerful insights on how to get promoted and be successful as a leader.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What every aspiring leader should know about themselves.
2) How to get promoted without asking for a promotion.
3) The key ratio that positions you for advancement.
Adam Bryant is Senior Managing Director and Partner at the ExCo Group, where he works with hundreds of senior leaders and high-potential executives. As the creator and former author of the iconic “Corner Office” column in The New York Times, Bryant has mastered the art of distilling real-world lessons from his hundreds of interviews and turning them into practical tools, presentations, and exercises to help companies deepen their leadership benches and strengthen their teams. He also works with executive leadership teams to help drive their transformation strategies, based on a best-practices framework he developed for his widely praised book, THE CEO TEST: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders.