There are seasons as a leader when it’s okay to cruise.
If you were driving cross country, you wouldn’t hesitate to use cruise control on those long boring stretches; you’d be unwise not to.
We drive a big green van from the ’90s on all family road trips, and wouldn’t you know it, the cruise control doesn’t work.
I want to cruise, I used to drive with my thumbs, but the green machine would like me to stay vigilant, never resting, never easing off, always on. The way many of us approach work.
As leaders, we need to pay attention to the seasons we’re in and the conditions we are navigating.
- Is it rush hour?
- Are we racing for some reason and need our leather driving gloves?
- Or is it an endless straightaway with perfect visibility, an ideal time to throw in the AirPods and block out the road noise (kids)?
Each requires something different from us.
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