A short talk on leadership styles arguing that extreme approaches—the ‘dictator’ (authoritarian) and the ‘doormat’ (passive)—both fail. The speaker advocates for a third approach: leading by example as a demonstration of possibility and direction rather than trying to save or fix people.
The way you lead is in response to how you learned to cope with the world as a leader. There's kind of a spectrum called the doormat and the dictator. The dictator's like, do this, do this, do this. Tell me what you do. Come see me. The doormat is, could you please? Like, they didn't do it. They didn't show up. I'm not gonna say anything. And they get taken advantage of. The truth is, both of those are in response to something that happened to you, and yet it affects your ability to lead people. My whole philosophy that leadership is, dictator doesn't work, doormat doesn't work. You need to be the person that stands there, an example of possibility and direction, not trying to go out there and save people and fix people.
