A short YouTube conversation (SDR #237 Shorts) featuring Chris Collins and another speaker that uses a shuttle-driving metaphor to discuss leadership failures when leaders act as backups. The speakers argue a leader should not be the one "driving the shuttle" during failures—doing so signals loss of control and failed contingencies.
If you're.
In a situation where you're driving the shuttle or you're backstopping a customer and the people around you aren't really nervous that you're doing their job for them, you have a much bigger problem than should. You drive the shuttle, and.
Maybe in.
A moment of desperation, you'll hop in the shuttle, but the whole time I'm in the shuttle, I'm telling myself this is never going to happen again. I'm fixing this.
This is ridiculous.
Yeah. You cannot be the backup.
This thing is broken.
If I'm driving the shuttle, yeah.
I am a failure as a leader. I have completely lost control. All contingencies.
Have failed.
And now I'm taking direct fire.
So, I don't know, you can make what you want of that, but if you want me to summarize it, no, you should not be driving the shuttle.
Yeah.
