In many leadership roles a leader must learn to manage expectations.
What is the greater challenge?
Working through the expectations of those you lead and lead with?
or working through your own internal expectation of yourself?
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Without a doubt...my leadership and life has been plagued by my own expectations (ambitions) on myself. I have found that it is much easier to lead and set clear expectations for those who follow then it is to set clear and definable epectations on myself. DOes that make sense?
ANd when I say plagued....I mean "made sick by."
I have to agree with Jer,
It's my own expectations that have drivin me to the edge of disaster. However, I think when you at to that personal pressure, the expextations of others, you come up with a deadly combination of expectation.
bommer... very good point... I think often times we project our own expectations onto others and thus create an expectation that is really only an internal one.
Like the above peoples, I too struggle with setting too high of expectations on myself. And then, I do one or combination of two things: 1) Impose expectations on people that are internal ones of my own. or 2) Decrease expectations of others but keep the expectations I have of my own, and then get angry at those people because they don't have to meet the same standards I do.
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