Most CEOs and senior executives have fallen prey to a lie.
The lie is that more success requires hard work and more grind.
Now, success does require commitment, diligence and work – but perhaps it doesn’t need to be hard.
It’s an easy trap to fall into: High-performing leaders have so much capacity it’s easy for them to step on the accelerator and move into hyper-productivity.
However, time and again with clients (from start-up founders to billion-dollar CEOs) I find this intensity is no longer serving them.
- They’re doing work that other people should be doing
- They’re optimising things that shouldn’t even be on their radar
- They’re missing out on the bigger picture
Moreover, this ‘hard work’ mentality is costing them at home too. They don’t have enough mental bandwidth to really attend to their family and friends. So life just becomes that little bit more miserable.
It doesn’t have to be this way!
In July I’m running a workshop for the Impact Multipliers, for my Rivendell CEO community and for my private clients called “The Lazy CEO”.