Things begin to fail. You succeed at a few assignments but fail in the rest. Maybe systems are not up to speed, information is patchy, and conversations are hurried. Everyone is overburdened because things are moving faster than you expected. Its harder to play catch-up.
People expect you to have the information, plan for the future and be diligent about winning the key moments of the game. They expect you to take charge of your part of the puzzle and get upset when things are not proceeding to plan.
“It’s unfair”, you think. “How am I expected to have all the information, all of the time?”
“How am I responsible for all these tasks when I dont have inadequate information to perform my tasks? How can I be blamed for this”
The answer is: You’re not being blamed, you’re being held accountable.
Leaders hold themselves accountable because they realize that in the end all fuck-ups are their fuck-ups, regardless of whether they did it themselves, they let it happen benignly, whether a subordinate did it or if they were negligent about it.
*Accepting* a failure and *understanding* that you messed up is leadership.
*Preventing*it from happening again is management.
The difference is leadership.
Learning the difference between the two is growth.
Author: Pranay Srinivasan
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