The transition from manager to leader is one of the hardest in any career, because the skills that earned the promotion are rarely the skills that create success in the new role.Managers optimize for control, efficiency, and getting today's work done. Leaders optimize for direction, growth, and building the capacity of others to succeed without them. The shift requires letting go of being the smartest person in the room and instead becoming the person who makes the room smarter.This means trading doing for developing, answers for questions, and short-term output for long-term capability. Leaders who make this shift stop measuring themselves by what they personally accomplish and start measuring themselves by what their people become.
Leaders stop measuring themselves by what they accomplish and start measuring themselves by what their people become.
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