{"id":4889,"date":"2011-09-13T05:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2011-09-12T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:52:53","slug":"leaders-dont-run-they-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/leaders-dont-run-they-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Don’t Run, They Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Back in Graduate school, I was part of a doctoral seminar on conflict and conflict resolution.\u00a0 There was a lot said about how to find agreement and negotiate to peace.\u00a0 But one of the most indelible things that our professor said during the seminar was, “Never let them see you running, or in a hurry.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve heard the old saying, “Never let them see you sweat.”\u00a0 But not, “Never let them see you running or in a hurry.”\u00a0 He went on to say that leaders walk steadily, methodically, and paced toward the goal<\/strong>.\u00a0 The point being, a leader can’t communicate to his team that he is in the panic mode, or that he doesn’t understand what is going on.\u00a0 He can’t become too emotional and distraught.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the greatest challenges to leaders is to manage their passion in such a way that their passion doesn’t get mistaken as anger or vindictiveness.\u00a0 How people interpret you is one thing.\u00a0 How you behave is always under your control.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So remember this: leaders don’t run, they walk.\u00a0 They don’t panic, they prepare.\u00a0 They don’t react, they respond 100% of the time.\u00a0 And if you can do that, you can navigate and negotiate any crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in Graduate school, I was part of a doctoral seminar on conflict and conflict resolution.\u00a0 There was a lot said about how to find agreement and negotiate to peace.\u00a0 But one of the most indelible things that our professor said during the seminar was, “Never let them see you running, or in a hurry.” … Continue reading “Leaders Don’t Run, They Walk”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}