{"id":109,"date":"2010-01-08T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2010-01-08T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T00:11:00","slug":"do-you-really-want-to-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/do-you-really-want-to-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Really Want to Lead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m spending the entire week next week with a group of aspiring leaders<\/strong>. They have answered the call of their organization to step up to a leadership role. In addition to more pay, they will also receive many opportunities to make a real difference for their organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And most of them are clueless to the challenge ahead.<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong>The truth is that being a leader can be difficult work<\/strong>. It&#8217;s easy to sit back and criticize someone in a leadership role. I try to remember that when I&#8217;m tempted to complain about national political leaders. It&#8217;s completely different when you are in the chair, at the table, and the decisions rest with you. Leadership is, indeed, not a popularity contest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you really want to be a leader? It&#8217;s a good question to ask as we start a new year.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>The Wall Street Journal had a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203517304574304151828522662.html\" target=\"_blank\">thought-provoking article on the topic recently<\/a>. It&#8217;s worth reading if you have intentions on increasing the scope of your responsibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serving in a leadership role is a tremendously rewarding experience. And it is hard work. I look forward to both inspiring (and sobering) my aspiring leaders next week!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your take? Do you remember what expectations you went into your role with? Has it been more challenging than you thought? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/contactus.asp\">Send me an e-mail<\/a> with your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending the entire week next week with a group of aspiring leaders. They have answered the call of their organization to step up to a leadership role. In addition to more pay, they will also receive many opportunities to make a real difference for their organization. And most of them are clueless to the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/do-you-really-want-to-lead\/#more-109\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,36,6,35,37,50],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p488Wj-1L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}