Watch your step!

Colleagues,

MVP: Watching where you step needs to be complimented with pausing to look around and reflect

*During spring break, I solo hiked the Art Loeb Trail here in Western North Carolina. Being on the trail often helps me to reflect and clear my head, and often I see parallels between hiking and leadership. I’ll be sharing four of them this week.

Should I look up or look down? Or around?

The Narrows is a several-miles long section of the trail running along a thin spine of mountain. It is constant up and down, but also technically challenging.

I had to stay very focused on the trail or risk putting my foot somewhere that would lead to a fall.

This made it difficult to appreciate the incredible views.

The solution?

Pause.

Leaders cannot appreciate where they have been, or are going, without pausing to look around, which we can also call “reflection.”

Cheers!

Frederick