7 False Beliefs of the Leadership Vacuum
Many leaders live for years in a state of cluelessness about the real health of the organization they lead, perhaps for all their leadership career. They refuse to solicit feedback, they won’t challenge the status quo, and they believe they are on the top of their leadership game.
The best leaders, however, avoid what I call the leadership vacuum. I have heard the term leadership vacuum used to describe the need for more leaders, but I believe the biggest void may be within existing leaders today. The leadership vacuum is where the leader believes:
- Everyone on the team understands me…
- Everyone on the team thinks like I think…
- Everyone on the team likes me…
- My team is healthy…
- I’m healthy/self-sufficient/fully capable on my own…
- The organization is headed in the right direction…
- We don’t need to make changes…
When the leader is clueless to the real problems and needs in the organization, he or she is living in the leadership vacuum. The best leaders are aware of the vacuum trap and guard against it in their leadership.
Leaders, have you ever lived in the leadership vacuum? Are you there now?
Have you followed a leader in the vacuum?
(I realize I am not immune to the leadership vacuum. In THIS POST I share some thoughts on how I attempt to avoid this in my leadership.)
