What I love about effective leadership, both in business and in life, is that there almost always is more than one way to successfully do something and more than one answer to any question or problem. Too often we may look at someone as the “expert” or the “best” at a certain skill, and we convince ourselves that in order to be successful we have to do it exactly like them. To say what they say. To act how they act. To do what they do.
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There is increasing interest in the business world in “onboarding”, the process by which managers and executives are oriented to, and integrated into, an organization. Books like The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins have become bestsellers, and organizations of all sizes are more mindful than ever about the importance of the first three months at a new job.
Henry Ford reportedly once complained that all he wanted from a worker was a pair of hands, but that he had to deal with the whole person instead. Each of us brings our whole self to work each day, whether or not we realize it.
