Ben Morton delivers a short leadership-focused monologue urging leaders to treat leadership activities as core, deliberate priorities rather than 'gap' tasks. He introduces an "equalizer" framework with three dials—doing things, managing things, and leading people—and closes with a call-to-action to sketch how one currently allocates time across those dials.
None of these are soft tasks. None of these are things to do when the doing is all done. They are core elements of effective leadership. They won't happen by chance. They'll only happen when we deliberately make time for them. And here's one final thought for you. The truth is, your team deserves more than whatever's left for you at the end of each day. Leadership can't and mustn't be something we do in the gaps when all of the real work is done. So take a look at your equalizer today. Sketch it out on a piece of paper with those three dials. Doing things, managing things, and leading people.
