Leadership and GPS – “Recalculating”

Wouldn’t life be great if we had a “life GPS”. You know, “Darn, I missed that exit” followed by an immediate “recalculating” from a calm voice. It didn’t matter how I failed to follow instructions, the wonderful GPS voice kept me from losing sight of my goal and helped me readjust my tactics with that single goal focus in mind.

Well, as a leader, aren’t you kind of like the GPS for a project, department, company and staff?

Yesterday I found myself in Newark Airport needing to get to Freeport, Maine for a meeting and as luck would have it, my flight was cancelled. After looking at options I determined the safest method to get me to my needed destination was to cancel my flight and drive. I knew the six hours would not be a problem but navigating New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine was going to be the challenge. Thank heavens for GPS.

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