Speaker (from a YouTube video titled 'Strong Leader Strength') argues that strong leaders possess extraordinary awareness — the ability to read the room across contexts (one-on-one, small teams, large audiences) — and that this awareness enables continuous course correction across short and long timeframes, informed by environmental, technical, competitive, talent, and motivational factors.
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One of the things that all really strong leaders have is extraordinary awareness. And what I've noticed is these individuals have the ability to read and take the pulse of a room, whether it's talking to one individual, their staffs of 10 or 12 people or a group of 1800 in real time, while expressing themselves and while communicating and while thinking to be able to take in what's happening. And that awareness enables them to course correct. That is such an important part of leadership is that course correction in every moment. Ideally, I don't know that people always have that luxury, but moment to moment, hour to hour, day to day, quarter to quarter, year to year, it's being able to understand your environment, the competitive landscape, the technical landscape, the talent landscape, the people you're working with, what motivates them and to be able to course correct. And that starts with awareness. So I couldn't agree more in that respect.