But effective leaders have a curious, and vital way to keep their leadership fresh and positive. It\u2019s a counter-intuitive, almost contradictory perspective that prevents reliable experience from turning into\u00a0simply tired and obsolete.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the ability to see the world through \u2018young eyes\u2019.<\/p>\n
Years ago a member of a board on which I served would close our meetings with a prayer that always included the line, \u201cAnd Lord, help us as leaders to always see the world through young eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
This leader was a man in his late \u201970\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Such a viewpoint sees the world as having endless possibilities. It is a positive perspective, full of energy and a sense of hope. And when leaders develop such a perspective, it\u2019s a sure-fire way to ensure that all of one\u2019s years of experience doesn\u2019t descend into predictable patterns which can render a leader stale and even obsolete.<\/p>\n
How can you view the world through young eyes? Here are three proven ways to keep your leadership fresh and powerful:<\/p>\n
Along with wisdom and perspective, longevity in leadership can also sometimes bring with it a certain jaded cynicism.<\/p>\n
But when you see the world through young eyes you continue to see possibilities in any situation. Always maintain your optimism.<\/p>\n
Years of experience can have the unfortunate side effect of causing a leader to view certain outcomes as inevitable.<\/p>\n
But choosing to see the world through young eyes creates within you an insatiable curiosity to understand\u00a0why<\/em>\u00a0things are the way they are, and then a refusal to believe things have to stay that way.<\/p>\n Spending years in the trenches of leadership can yield invaluable perspective and understanding.<\/p>\n But with young eyes you can add to this an uncanny ability to rebound from failed attempts.<\/p>\n The paradox is that the more experience you attain in your leadership, the more discipline may be required to maintain this youthful outlook.<\/p>\n So start each day by declaring the choice to view the world today through young eyes. Because if you do,\u00a0you really can prevent \u201cwise and experienced\u201d from turning into simply \u201cold and tired.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In leadership, there\u2019s nothing quite like proven, reliable experience. That is, unless all that experience slides into nothing more than\u00a0mere tired staleness. But effective leaders have a curious, and vital way to keep their leadership fresh and positive. It\u2019s a counter-intuitive, almost contradictory perspective that prevents reliable experience from turning into\u00a0simply tired and obsolete. It\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,738,478,7,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courage","category-effectiveness-2","category-featured","category-leadership","category-perspective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6628,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/6628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}3.\u00a0 \u00a0D<\/strong>evelop stubborn resiliency<\/strong><\/h2>\n