Challenges for Women in Leadership

1. Challenges for Women in Leadership

2. Their conflict grew from a small misunderstanding and finally resulted in one brother plowing a deep trench between the adjoined properties after a series of serious arguments supplemented by weeks of silence.Then one morning the elder brother, John, received a knock on his door from a man holding a carpenter's toolbox asking for a "few day's of work." The older brother said "Yes I have a job for you. See that pile of wood. I need you to build a fence next to that trench my younger brother just dug opening up the levee and creating a creek. Before he bulldozed that trench, we had a meadow separating us. Now I do not even want to see his farm or his face."

3. The carpenter replied, "I think I understand the situation. All I need now is the nails and the post hole digger to be able to do a job that pleases you."After receiving the supplies, the carpenter went to work and the brother left to attend to other farming chores. All day, the carpenter worked very hard, digging, measuring, sawing and nailing.Around sunset when John returned from his daily work, the carpenter was just finishing up his job. When he surveyed the job, his eyes opened wide and his jaw dropped because he did not see a fence, but a bridge spanning the two sides of the creek bed. The work was without flaw. Then he saw his younger brother coming across with an outstretched hand saying "John, you are quite something else to build this bridge after everything I have said and done."

4. As the two brothers stood at each end of the bridge, suddenly they began walking toward each other and they met in the middle taking each other's hand. Then they saw the carpenter with his toolbox in hand walking away. John, the older brother said, "Please do not leave. Stay a few days as I have a lot of other projects for you."The carpenter replied as he continued to walk away, "I'd love to stay on, but, I have many more bridges to build."This story reminded me of the Camus quote that has stuck in my mind for almost 10 years about "we are what we do." The carpenter was a leader who embodied this simple statement about who we are as human beings.

5. How many times do our actions reflect "we are what we do?" What would happen if we became more intentional, more focused about our leadership behaviors and ensure congruency between those behaviors and our internal leadership values. Executive Coaching Tip: Write your own values statement to ensure your leadership behaviors are on target.We are what we do is a powerful statement about purpose and alignment between our leadership behaviors and our thoughts or beliefs. Again we have 100% control of our behaviors and what thoughts we keep inside of our minds. So this leads to this last question "What types of bridges are you building?" as a leader? https://optimusforexreview.com/centobot-review/ https://nomorescamreviews.com/effective-communication-review/ https://optimusforexreview.com/the-credit-people-review/ https://nomorescamreviews.com/miracle-of-self-discipline-review/