Femi LazarusCEO at Femi Lazarus Consulting

Leadership demands self-awareness. Your decisions carry weight, and impact your team

5 Apr 2026 · 2 min

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In this concise leadership monologue, the speaker argues that a leader’s lack of self‑awareness erodes relationships, trust, and morale. Without awareness, leaders become intimidating, overbearing, and create a tense, fear‑driven organization where vision is eclipsed by anxiety. This environment destroys loyalty because employees fear for their job security. The speaker stresses that happiness at work is not a crime and that a consistently tense team signals poor leadership. Moreover, frequent employee departures should be interpreted as feedback about the leader’s impact. The talk concludes with a call to access the full message via the Femi Lazarus Digital Library app.

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Once a leader is not self-aware, you're going to break relationships and trust because you're going to become intimidating. You will destroy the esteem of your men because you don't know the impact of your words. You become overbearing. You're going to have a tensed organization. And once what drives an organization is no longer your influence or love for the vision, once fear begins to drive the organization, you lose loyalty. Because people are more loyal where they can be sure that their future is secure. You want to really make it clear that people can't lose their positions based on how you feel. One of the ways we know that you are not elite is that your team is always tensed. There's tension everywhere. Once you are around, there's more of tension than vision. Do you know that people can work and be happy? It's not a crime to be happy at work. Are you aware? The room is quiet. Are you aware it's not a crime to be happy at work? It's not a crime. People can work and be happy. So once you're— you don't know the impact of your actions on people. And I want to also say this, that if people keep leaving you, is a feedback. Get the full message on Femi Lazarus Digital Library app today.