How Failure Can Help Leaders Succeed Dr Adrian Cohen
Leaders need many things in order to help them succeed. The greatest leaders will often display abilities such as excellent communication skills, critical thinking abilities and the ability to stay cool in a crisis, which has helped them get to where they are, but one of the most vital parts of being a successful leader is having experienced failure. Many of the most successful people on the planet failed time and time again before finding the success they have now. You might be wondering how that’s possible, so read on for a few ways in which failure can help you succeed as a leader.
Failure Gets You Out Of Your Comfort Zone One of the worst things you can do as a leader is to become too comfortable. If things are going well in your business or organization, it can be rather easy to go with the flow and just let things happen. While this is an understandable feeling, it can also be detrimental to your leadership abilities and can stunt further growth. Think of leadership the way you would think of lifting weights. If you’re lifting weights and aren’t struggling to do so, you likely aren’t lifting enough. Leadership is similar, and we must constantly challenge ourselves if we want to grow at all.
Failure Makes You More Grateful While failing is never a fun experience to have, it tends to help individuals be more grateful once they’ve actually succeeded. This is true not only of leaders but practically anyone who has experienced failure at one point or another. Having gratitude for the circumstances that brought you to your success, as well as the people who helped you get there helps you be a better person, which can help improve your leadership abilities by making you more motivated, amongst other things.
Failure Teaches You What Doesn't Work One of the hardest parts of being a leader is knowing what tactics do or do not work, whether they be for you specifically or for your business. You can often look at other people’s success and the failures they’ve experienced in order to give yourself an idea of what may or may not work for you, but you’ll never truly know if something works for you until you try it for yourself. Failure can help you realize that the great idea you had might not be working for you and that it’s time to try something new.
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