2024届高考英语一轮复习外刊阅读及配套练习：Leaders Learn from Being a Leader如何成为好的领导+学案

Leaders Learn from Being a Leader To be a better leader, reflect on your own experience and others'. KEY POINTS Since every leadership situation is specific, one-size-fits-all rules tend not to be helpful. Leaders learn on the job, reflecting on their own experience and that of others. Collaboration is a crucial leadership skill, since no one can lead on their own. Empathy for the people you lead will help to inspire trust and to build committed teams. The leadership issues faced by everyday leaders are persona, and bound up with their specific situations. Thus, it’s impossible to lay down infallible rules (either for becoming a leader or for managing in that position). That would miss the subtlety and spontaneity of how each of us may be required to respond. It would miss the jerry-built nature of leadership on a small scale, where we accomplish what we can and then think up new, possibly more productive strategies that utilize the resources at hand. So, I favor broad, individually adaptable principles for coping with challenges as they arise— that is, as we evolve into a leadership role and adapt as we go. From this perspective, everyday leadership is situational, a way of managing challenges so that they do not prevent us from reaching a goal that has not been unduly compromised. Apart from conforming to some basic principles (“I will always treat my colleagues fairly,” “I will always be honest”), we may be required to change course too often for one overarching approach to govern how we proceed. I’ve been down this unmarked road before. When I wrote a book on happiness, I argued that no one can tell anyone how to be happy. That is, each of us finds our own way, based on the circumstances of our lives. A similar principle applies to everyday leadership, since it’s futile to lay down managerial rules for the unique challenges that everyday leaders face. What does help, however, is to learn from how others, in similar circumstances, navigated their own challenges