Seeing Ourselves as Leaders

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Stepping into a leadership role doesn’t always require permission — but it can require some soul-searching. We speak with leadership development experts on how to be seen as a leader by others and feel like one yourself. Guests: Muriel Wilkins and Amy Su. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:28.0	I remember the first time I was really challenged to stop being, you know, a follower and be a leader. A colleague saw me in a
0:37.4	context where I was supposed to be leading and evidently wasn't because she came up
0:40.8	to me afterwards and she said what are you waiting for?
0:45.0	Who are you waiting to say now Amy is the leader?
0:50.0	And you were given every opportunity and you just blew it.
0:54.1	Huh. And she was so right. She was so right. I mean, I felt like crap when she said it, but you know, that that prompted a lot of soul searching.
1:07.0	And what did you do differently?
1:08.0	I looked for opportunities to steer and to offer guidance and when instead of asking a question I would
1:19.0	offer my view here's what I would recommend.
1:24.2	It was really sort of a, I had to switch the channel from being, you know, I guess I viewed myself
1:29.8	as just one of many people on the team to taking ownership and recognizing that if this thing
1:35.9	we were working on failed, I would be the one to blame.
1:40.8	Right.
1:41.8	And it was really like that self-generated thing where you realize that it's up to you to make it work. You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
1:58.5	I'm Amy Bernstein.
1:59.7	I'm Amy Gallo and I'm Nicole Torres.
2:02.4	Making the transition from being one of many on a team, an individual
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