Réflexions sur la réalité et le leadership

par Louis-Samuel Jacques le 29 janv. 2025 09:03:16

Un mur avec plusieurs portes fermées.

 
 

Les trois idées cette semaine sont de Lee Thayer et de Pat Murray, deux conférenciers qui ont marqué de nombreux chairs et membres de TEC au fil des 70 ans d’existence de nos groupes.

Les textes en anglais sont tirés d’une conférence de Pat Murray donnée dans le passé à un groupe TEC, et les citations de Thayer proviennent de son livre Leadership : Thinking, Being, Doing.

Cette fois, je ne commenterai pas davantage, méditons plutôt sur ces écrits importants.

Great authority figures keep the group in touch with reality at all times

Easy to say but hard to do, especially when the reality is not friendly. It's scary. No group is better than its leader. If you won't go there, they won't either. When the anxiety is high, it's when your role as a leader is the most important. They don't need you when things go smoothly, they need you when they can't beathe. That's when they need you, that's when you have a role to play.

(Pat Murray)

Your sense of certainty that you’re right doesn’t make you right

Just because two or more people agree doesn’t mean that you can’t be wrong, or that all of you can’t be wrong. Agreement validates what you know. But it doesn’t guarantee that what you know is what you need to know.

(Lee Thayer)

 
We often talk as if we are dealing with reality, but this never happens
 
We are stuck dealing with what we say about reality, with what we think about reality. What’s in our heads is not reality. It has already been transformed into what things mean to us – given our own mental models. The world we see is a virtual reality. It is reality as we interpret it. This is not a philosophical issue. There is nothing even academic about it. It’s as practical as we can get. The concept may be hard to get but if you don’t come to grips with this one, you will be forever disadvantaged in your pursuit of becoming an effective leader.

(Lee Thayer)

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