Strategic & Diplomatic

I once spoke to a leader who was telling me that life is not so simple as a leader. Actually, leadership is quite often an exercise in facing reality; and he couldn’t face this. This leader had dealt with someone who was very unethical and dishonest, and he couldn’t understand that.

Well, I tried to explain to him that dishonest people are just that, they are “dishonest” and they lack integrity. That’s who they are. That’s how they live. This is what they do. It is what they want to be.

Now there’s a concept called the 80-20 rule. It is to learn to spend 80% of your time as the leader with the 20% of the people who deserve it. A leader has to know that difference. Why is that?