Leadership
Leaders as Creators
An artist looks at their work in a totally different frame of mind than does a mechanic. The artist sees infinite possibility. The mechanic sees a problem to be solved. The artist has a vision. The mechanic has a job. The artist works in iterations, continuing to add to the creation what is needed. The mechanic works by elimination, until the source of the dysfunction is found. The artist creates, the mechanic fixes.
As a leader, you are often in the “mechanic mode”. People bring you problems to be solved, work to be done, decisions to be made, dilemmas to be fixed. And that is a valuable and ever-present part of the role you play.
But how often do you play the role of creator?