Performance for the leader in you

“The rose has no ‘why’, it blooms when it blooms. It doesn’t watch itself or wonder if anyone else sees it.”

Angelus Silesius, the German mystic shares this poetic insight to remind us about what’s important when we we’re looking to perform at our peak. As leaders, peak performance is attained when we have focused attention in the right direction. We limit ourselves and our ability to perform at our highest capacity when our attention is singularly focused on what others are doing, or when we get caught up in what others think about what we’re doing.

For leaders, we perform best when we are in it to win it. In other words, when we are focused on the goal we are working towards or the project of which we are a part, our chance for optimal performance increases exponentially. The leader, like the rose, will bloom when s/he keeps the goal or project front and center.

In peace,

Jonathan Kroll

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Jonathan is an educator at Emerson College in Boston preparing for his PhD in the fall.