You want to build a start-up or get a promotion to a management job. You want to be a leader–to manage a team. And these are admirable goals. But, have you stopped to think about what day-to-day leadership looks like?
It’s not sitting in a big leather chair and handing down decisions that your brilliant staff carry out while you rake in the piles of gold. It’s a lot of hard work and sacrifice.
A woman who is an Operations Executive for a large company recently shared this, and with her permission, I share it with you. This is what leadership looks like:
