Dee Hock, founder of Visa, argues that the best leaders spend more than half their energy leading themselves, not others. This self-leadership focus is what separates top performers from the rest.
Dee Hock. He founded a little company called Visa, as in Visa credit cards. After he retired and sold his equity in Visa, he started writing for Harvard and writing for all these other publications about leadership. One of the things he found over and over and over again with the very best leaders in the world, they did something that ordinary leaders did not do, which was they focused more than 50% of their leadership energy on leading themselves. So we think of, oh, where's my best leadership energy? Leading others, leading up, leading down, leading sideways. Nope. Leaning myself.
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