Posted on Apr 9, 2016
Leadership Is Learned From Experience, Mentoring and Failure
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Committees don’t create successful startups. A single visionary entrepreneur almost always is the initial implementer of an innovative new venture, but that lone entrepreneur doesn’t have the bandwidth to grow the business alone. He or she needs the multiplier of growing from the “doer” to a team-builder and leader. That’s a big transition, and many entrepreneurs never make it.
These entrepreneurs know instinctively what needs to be done, but they may have no idea how to get it done through others. Some will argue that people leadership is a skill you have to be born with, but I’m convinced that it can be learned from experience, mentoring and failures. The ones who learn quickest are the ones who move from good entrepreneurs to good business leaders.
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Committees don’t create successful startups. A single visionary entrepreneur almost always is the initial implementer of an innovative new venture, but that lone entrepreneur doesn’t have the bandwidth to grow the business alone. He or she needs the multiplier of growing from the “doer” to a team-builder and leader. That’s a big transition, and many entrepreneurs never make it.
These entrepreneurs know instinctively what needs to be done, but they may have no idea how to get it done through others. Some will argue that people leadership is a skill you have to be born with, but I’m convinced that it can be learned from experience, mentoring and failures. The ones who learn quickest are the ones who move from good entrepreneurs to good business leaders.
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Leadership Is Learned From Experience, Mentoring and Failure
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Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Experience
Mentorship
Failure
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I concur that genuine leadership is learned from experience COL Mikel J. Burroughs. Failure is a great teacher when we take time to learn what the cause of failure was whether in leadership or engineering. Good leaders can mentor subordinate leaders out of their own experience while bad leaders tend to lord it over subordinates.
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Agree, some of the worst "leaders" I've ever worked with were academy graduates who assumed they were leaders because they graduated from X academy. You must learn from being there and doing it. I've always said I made every mistake in the book but only once. If you don't learn from what you have done and care for your people, not your progress, you will never be a good leader. I've worked with many entrepreneurs and the best acknowledge that they are great developing things but horrible at running day to day ops. They are leaders who know to bring the right people in to make their "baby" have a lasting future.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen, that is a great response, Sir! It is okay to make mistakes in most career fields, but it is rarely okay to repeat them.
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