You’ve heard the saying “Leaders are readers.”
I no longer believe that is true!
That’s because just reading for reading’s sake is not a healthy leadership trait.
Great leaders are educators.
Meaning, they are always learning.
And always teaching.
They do this by reading, for certain! They are also podcast listeners; video watchers; conference attenders and intellectually curious.
Leaders learn wide, across many topics. This stops narrow-mindedness and gives them the ability to point the people they lead in the right direction.
Leaders also learn deep, digging into a few topics in detail. Which gives them the wisdom and experience to radically change how they lead.
People don’t want to follow a leader with empty knowledge.
People want to follow leaders with wisdom.
Experience.
And knowledge.
Great leaders are great learners and therefore great educators.
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Are you learning wide & deep to become the leader you need to be?
Footnote worth remembering: The saying “leaders are readers” was coined in the 1800s when reading was about the only option for learning.