An important, if not vital, lesson for leaders is that people not only look to you, they look AT you. Leaders are always on stage and being watched, even when they think they aren’t. Being in a senior, very visible leadership role requires that you think constantly about how what you are doing and saying would look if it were on the front page of a newspaper.
You can read here a very interesting, and timely, article in the Washington Post recently by Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organisational behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and author of “Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t”.
