Letting Go of Leadership

A good leader can get people to work and create a product that she is prideful of that is able to be sold for a fair price in the market. A great leader can do the right thing no matter who is not looking and can manage the pauses to her advantage. She can stop working for a little bit, take a break, change her mindset and let other people run the company.

Whether that company be our family, home enterprise, or surrounding community, as long as we focus on one of the to do's of any entity we propel our business forward. Yet inertia is caused by selective movement. The moment that we stop our investment and allow nothing to transpire--no emails, no social media, no cross branding, no research, no networking, no educating--on behalf of the business should be the time that previous actions move purposefully toward the trajectory you initially set. That is why each action we take is so important. Break, instead of creating a sense that one has fallen behind, should build the strength of a leader's aoutopilot and effectiveness of her actions.

Managing ourselves through the new challenges, unanswered questions, unfamiliar places and uncontrollable time and people is what gives us situational jetlag. A sense of malaise that affects our physical and mental activity to the point of uncontrollable behavior. If we do not allow sufficient time to process the onslaught of information we receive, we do not improve our reactivity to it. We become unable to relinquish control to others, the sensation of fear that comes with so many unknowns can overwhelm and stalemate us. But the great leaders of the world know when to let go.