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Episode 44 - Loving the F with Maxine Attong - Forbidden Leadership
Category: Health
Duration: 00:54:14
Publish Date: 2019-01-27 06:00:00
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Author, keynote speaker, consultant, entrepreneur and leader Maxine Attong returns to LTF . In this episode, she talks about leadership and how the oft times lonely path is evolving as connection becomes more important.

Lead Your Team to Win

  • I think in the last 20 years there’s been a reexamination of the individuals in terms of “who are we as individuals?” You know in small pockets there has been this increased amount of writers who talk about the soul without shame. Not about religion – but about living a life of intention, living a life of spirituality and the way we behave as people.
  • There is a sort of movement within leadership where we’re realizing the world does not work in terms of “one and one does not equal to two.”
  • Because the world is much more complex, because the world is much more connected – because we can feel the impacts of decisions made 800 miles from us almost immediately – I think those are things that are now shifting the idea that, we can determine predict what is going to happen within an organization, so therefore there begins to be room for leaders to see you don’t have to do it this way as well.
  • I always felt conflicted as a young manager…who I was asked to be and who I am. And that conflict showed up in different ways in terms of my level of happiness, in terms of what I did to relieve stress – in terms of the quality of relationships that I enjoyed or did not enjoy with loved ones – my family.
  • As I started to shed expectations and question what I had learned and question a lot of what I learned about leadership in particular, and a lot of these stories – a lot of these iconic – usually men, usually white men – that are written about. They really did bot represent me or my experiences.
  • The first time I led I was in secondary school and I totally bombed. I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t know how to do it and I learned from not feeling good after an interaction – I learned watching someone not feeling good after an interaction with me… the reason I learned it was because I had the intention to be an effective leader.
  • The truth is, wherever we go, we show up with all of whom we are.
  • Ask yourself, what is my motive for wanting this person to shut up? And the motive could be, “I’m in charge and she shouldn’t speak” or “That point is not appropriate for this time.”
  • Leadership is not really about you and you’re not so special because you’re a leader. Sometimes it’s the good fortune of being placed in the head of an organization or department.
  • When we give of ourselves we are depleted, and how do we ensure that we’re topped out?
  • [As leaders] To move forward, and to move forward with our sanity, to move forward with our integrity – it takes a lot of energy.
  • When I was an accountant I was good at planning my life…and I did it. I realize now, I refuse to make a plan. I have a vision of what I want to do, my personal vision…therefore I’m operating from a space of, “This is my intention and I’m opening up to the magic of the universe, and I’m saying “yes” to whatever comes my way.”
  • I think planning is great until you’re in your mid 30’s. Because we’re trying to control our narrative and build our narrative and that’s important. But as we grow older – continued planning like that shrinks our world…it blocks out all of the wonder, all of the awe and all of the surprises the world offers up.
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