How To Determine if You Are Ready for a Leadership Position?

<p>I have worked with some excellent managers. People who were good at what they did and had great leadership potential. Sadly though, these managers didn&rsquo;t invest in their own growth. They were so busy attending to the daily demands of the management job &mdash; putting out fires, resolving production issues, solving customer escalation, moving from one delivery timeline to another &mdash; that they failed to build the skills required to become a great leader someday.</p> <p>Like many managers, they assumed that by doing their job fairly well and staying in it for too long, they would automatically earn the leadership title. And I don&rsquo;t blame them for this kind of thinking. For years, we have seen leaders rise through the ranks of the corporate ladder who had no business being in those positions.</p> <p>When you see examples of&nbsp;bad leadership&nbsp;all around you, it&rsquo;s kind of easy to assume you can be a leader, too &mdash; after all, you consider yourself better than them. If they can be in those positions, you can be too. If they can jump through a fire hoop, you can jump too.</p> <p>But is it the right thinking for people with such great potential? By comparing themselves to people they do not aspire to become, these managers weren&rsquo;t signing up for excellence because they had already accepted mediocrity.</p> <p><a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-determine-if-you-are-ready-for-a-leadership-position-acca0aa82c35">Read More</a></p>