Most people want to grow and develop. Most people have aspirations to do well. Most people have dreams and goals they want to achieve.
Assuming an individual leader has Career Ambition, to know what they want from a career and to actively work on it. They also need Learning Agility. A significant difference between successful leaders and those whose careers falter, is the ability to learn new behaviors faster. This ability is known as Learning Agility, emotional intelligence, or just plain street smarts and common sense.
Experience finishes what nature starts. Research on the development of leadership reveals that successful leaders go through at least three major leaps or transitions in their careers.
Each of these transitions has with it a contingent set of critical lessons that effective leaders have to master. At each level these transitions become more difficult to learn, and the failure rate of leaders increases. The secret of success, over time, is to learn the behaviors and master the skills necessary for success at each level. This means that leaders must stop using old behaviors, and continue to learn and master new ones, in a process of continuous learning.
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