I was in a series of conversations with some leaders recently, and we were discussing how some senior and middle level professionals are more successful than others. Our conversations were centring around, what made these leaders more successful than the others!
We looked at a variety of reasons: from education, to experience, to attitudes, to the quality of their team members and even who they were reporting into. None of these factors, gave us a consistent and reliable pattern. So, we were struggling to pin down something and say, this is the reason why these leaders are more successful than others! We found this situation, against all common wisdom, and popular literature about successful leadership profile etc. We were indeed baffled. Not that, at this point we had concluded from our enquiry that success profiles were not important. But we couldn’t just find how they were consistently creating success.