Drop it: The hardest part of Leadership
October 9, 2007
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Leaders are constantly in the position to make decisions, but it is not the choice for the latest thing that is so hard to make. We see people jumping on new bandwagons all the time. It is hard to decide that embracing something new means letting go of something old. After all, the old has worked so far. For nonprofit organizations, the old means: that for which you received a grant last year, a grant that paid salaries of key staff, even though it didn’t pay them what they are worth.
When you set priorities and decide on a new strategy, you have done the easy part. Now you have to decide what you get rid of. Otherwise, you will do nothing really well. Everything gets done a little bit. The surest way for your organization to sink.
It is actually easy to see what you have to let go of, once you have decided on the new. It is not hard to see what is old, it is just hard to say it. That is where leadership comes in. Everybody will see, but everybody will want someone else they can blame for the pain that always comes with letting go of the old, even if you had to.
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