LESSON FIVE
Take Ownership of Your Own Development
Henry Kravis Research Chair Professor of Leadership at the Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College
EVERY MANAGER and executive basically owns his or her own development as a leader. Let me illustrate with this story, which captures the fact that you and I have to be masters of how we develop as leaders.
The story is set many, many years ago when I was a little boy, actually four years old, and my parents took myself, my older brother, and little sister to southern France. On a very beautiful day, my mother took us all down to the hotel swimming pool. What we hadn’t known was that she’d gone out and hired the lifeguard to come and teach my older brother how to swim. ...
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