Typical Scene: Supervisor asks employee to take on X project with a deadline approximately six weeks from now. This is such a typical scene that it really doesn't seem that there is much variation in how the story can go from there, right? Wrong. Remember those children's books where you make a choice and then the story progresses from there? Well let's examine just a couple of ways this typical scenario could go. Scenario 1 : Sometime in the next 72 hours the supervisor stops by the office and asks the employee for a status update on the project. Either... (a)...the employee has neatly drafted an project plan and happily shares this with the supervisor, or (b)...the employee says something vague to the effect of "it is on target" and wonders why the supervisor is micromanaging the project. What is going on in these two very different reactions to the same exact question about the same project? From a Myers-Briggs Type I...
Life and leadership are not about which path you take, they are about the choices you make when the roads diverge. The are not achieved in a one-day or one-month. They are compiled through a lifetime of education, experience, and reflection.