The way others expect a leader to respond determines the way they respond to (and approach) that leader.
This is a valuable principle about leadership.
For example:
If they expect a leader to respond in anger.
They’ll dance around issues – never confronting them with you or bringing them to the leader’s attention.
The leader will seldom know the true health of your team or what others are thinking.
If they expect a leader to respond defensively or with a closed-mind to every new idea which doesn’t come from the leader.
They’ll only respond to the leader’s ideas – refusing to take risks of their own.
The organization will be limited to how creative the leader is. It will leave some of the best new ideas untapped and off the table.
If they expect the leader to respond with condemnation.
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