Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category

Welcome to my new blog! I am looking forward to sharing my insights, thoughts and experiences on business and leadership topics with you here.

In my workshops I often ask “are you a leader or a follower” and almost always, the answer is “both”. And while this may hold true on a situational basis, I ask the question again, when it comes to your core character, are you a leader or a follower? Are you an individual who prefers to not have to take on the responsiblity of leadership or are you a leader who is willing to step aside to let others lead and follow by choice, well informed and doing so while looking at the big picture.

As a leader, when we follow, it should be by choice, not because somebody else tells us it’s the only way, everybody else is doing it, or because it’s more convenient. Being from Germany it’s engrained in me to never blindly follow a leader, as our history sadly shows what can happen when many, many people choose to follow without asking the right questions. Staying with this same example, it’s equally important to me that those whom I lead are individuals who are capable of speaking up when the direction I lead them is not right.

I want to encourage you to check in with yourself… and leave me a note - how do you lead, how do you follow?