The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

The Leader Player Conundrum   When we are promoted into leadership positions or when we are running a small business, there is no luxury option of just being a leader, focused solely on working through others.  We have to both lead and produce.  As a first time leader, this can be extremely dangerous.  Often our career trajectory is shot down because we blow ourselves up.  We fail as both a producer and a leader and then we get shown the door.  Usually, we are promoted and left to our own devices to work it out, because there is no training on how to be a leader.   As the player, we are comfortable and as the leader we are feeling out of our depth.  Naturally we gravitate to where we feel the most comfortable and capable.  We were chosen as a leader because we were the best at our functional responsibilities.  The best accountant or IT specialist, the top sales person etc.  We distinguished ourselves through our ability to produce results.     The trick here though is all we had to worry about were our own nu