I want to shamelessly steal that phrase, hoist it on a flagpole, and carry it like a standard.
"the cost of leadership is self interest" - Simon Sinek The single quote that I will pull out as the thing most meaningful to me (and most relevant here) is this: There's a video that I'll link at the end of this article - a talk by Simon Sinek, titled "Why Leaders Eat Last". Most require mentorship and practice to get right. Some are acquired with great difficulty, others with relative ease. Everything that I would put in this category is something that can be studied and emulated - essentially "faked" - until acquired. Among these are things like public speaking, running meetings, making decisions, delegating work, knowing how and when to provide criticism - to name only a few. These are the learned behaviors that we associate with leaders and leadership. They are granted, bestowed, inherited, or taken by force. Leadership titles tend to be steeped in ritual and social process. The individual who wears the title is leader in name - and name only. The title of leader grants the bearer's actions the weight of authority. Of the three, this is the simplest to understand. I believe there are three quintessential pieces. I'm going to start with a specific view of leadership. There's really only one of those that's appropriate for this venue: let's talk about leadership and why I think it belongs on the same list as the others.
Here they are: love, religion, happiness, and leadership.īuy me a beer some time and we can discuss the first three. It is these - these impossible-to-fake things - that I've probably learned the most from in life. The saying "fake it till you make it" is something I've learned to live by, really out of necessity more than anything else (though that's another tale for another venue).Īs you might expect, some things are easier to fake than others. Rather, I'm acknowledging the truth that at some point I wasn't any of these things that I eventually became. I've pretended at being happy.īefore I go too far with this, I should clarify that I'm not making a deep and public confession of a life lived fraudulently. More recently, I've had reasonable success pretending to be an engineer and a leader. I've faked being a government researcher, a student, a salesperson, a cashier, a machine shop assistant, and a manager. In some ways, life is like one big, never-ending child's game of "let's pretend." I'm not that old, and I'm certainly far from wise, but I have done a lot of pretending.
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