All of the teams you have been a part of had someone who was the leader. Appointed or not, there most definitely was an individual who steered the ship so to speak, in an effort to produce the team's desired and/or mandated common goal.
Leaders, like ice cream, have many flavours. Unlike ice cream, some leader flavours are so terrible, no one could possibly enjoy it.
I worked as a consultant for a travel business for 20 months, probably the hardest 20 months of my professional life. Why? I had to spend every single day watching the leaders of this company make the same mistakes over and over. Beyond that, I then had to sit in weekly meetings where they complained that nothing was changing. A common theme in my writing is the simple definition regarding insanity. These leaders were the epitome of that definition. Despite my impeccable record of turning companies around, running successful businesses and getting teams to succeed - my suggestions for success were ignored. Since last year, I really wondered what these gentlemen were paying me for and what my value was to them. Something didn't sit right.
After countless months of late paychecks, consumer complaints and employee morale issues I decided it was time to leave. Then, within days of this epiphany I had a stroke.
Today is almost 4 months later and I no longer work for the company. I'm working on other awesome projects, smile more and I'm much healthier and happier.
The lesson I learned from these lesser leaders and hope you learn here;
When a company or a person continuously asks for your help with problems but then ignores your solutions. Something isn't right. When you are receiving what people call, 'all the information' and after reviewing the information sense those same people might have ulterior motives, they probably do. When something doesn't feel right, it probably isn't.
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