Bernadette Boas says leaders who stay stuck in execution miss goals and burn out their teams. Slow down, clarify what actually matters, and prioritize the high-impact work. You'll hit targets faster and keep people from leaving.
What do you suggest or advise leaders who are leaning more into the execution, the doing? Slow down to go fast. So I guess when I think about that, how do you know you're going to achieve your goals if you just have this bottom-up approach? But when I think about that, I think at the bottom, right? I do all these things that'll lead to this. Right. Versus this is where I'm going. What are the things I need to do in order to get there? So you think about it more from a top-down approach than a bottoms-up approach. I think a lot of leaders are in the bottoms-up approach. And if I get there, and then what happens is they don't meet their goals. And if you're always executing, number one, you're going to burn yourself out. Number two, you're going to burn your team out, or people are going to leave, or they're going to quiet quit. Or you're gonna have a retention problem. And so it's gonna create all these additional things that you have to put energy towards.
From Stuck to Leading, Episode 2 — Meet the 5 Inner Fears Destroying Your Leadership
