{"id":179370,"date":"2023-12-28T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-power-of-leaders-who-focus-on-solving-problems"},"modified":"2023-12-28T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T15:22:24","slug":"the-power-of-leaders-who-focus-on-solving-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-power-of-leaders-who-focus-on-solving-problems","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Leaders Who Focus on Solving Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-power-of-leaders-who-focus-on-solving-problems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new kind of leadership taking hold in organizations. Strikingly, these new leaders don\u2019t like to be called leaders, and none has any expectation that they will attract \u201cfollowers\u201d <em>personally<\/em> \u2014 by dint of their charisma, status in a hierarchy, or access to resources. Instead, their method is to get others excited about whatever problem they have identified as ripe for a novel solution. Having fallen in love with a problem, they step up to leadership \u2014 but only reluctantly and only as necessary to get it solved. Leadership becomes an intermittent activity as people with enthusiasm and expertise step up as needed, and readily step aside when, based on the needs of the project, another team member\u2019s strengths are more central. Rather than being pure generalists, leaders pursue their own deep expertise, while gaining enough familiarity with other knowledge realms to make the necessary connections. They expect to be involved in a series of initiatives with contributors fluidly assembling and disassembling.<\/p>\n<p>Page-utils class= article-utils\u2014vertical hide-for-print data-js-target= page-utils data-id= tag: blogs.harvardbusiness.org, 2007\/03\/31:999.199848 data-title= The Power of Leaders Who Focus on Solving Problems data-url=\/2018\/04\/the-power-of-leaders-who-focus-on-solving-problems data-topic= Leadership styles data-authors= Deborah Ancona; Hal Gregersen data-content-type= Digital Article data-content-image=\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2018\/04\/apr18_16_840591218-383x215.jpg data-summary=<\/p>\n<p>Can you get people excited about the problems that excite you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new kind of leadership taking hold in organizations. Strikingly, these new leaders don\u2019t like to be called leaders, and none has any expectation that they will attract \u201cfollowers\u201d personally \u2014 by dint of their charisma, status in a hierarchy, or access to resources. Instead, their method is to get others excited about whatever [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}