Balcony Vs The Dance-floor | Leadership Mindset Webinar | Digital Marketing Institute

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and then that's vain again another concept from adaptive leadership is this concept of balcony and dance floor and to me it's that although we probably won't have to have clutches and brakes for very much longer but it's having your foot on the clutch I'm sorry and the accelerator at the same time because what you want to do is you want to actually need to be a two places at once because if you're up down on the dance floor and you're you know there and you're trying to get your point across but you you are literally so emotionally connected with what's going on you're failing to see what's happening in the room and how that's impacting other people do you need to be able to break away from that and sometimes if you're in a meeting and you're trying to get your message across just kick your chair back because that's amazing even that physical movement it'll just connect you from being on the dance floor get on that balcony and actually observe what's going on so true and there's just there's two quick examples that's rolling there this Gentilly that's or dimensions that we mentioned act clearly previously Pat's biggest problem in terms of how he was leading his for such a devil and dealing with the situation was that he couldn't get up under the balcony and those that were in the balcony couldn't communicate those were back at their headquarter either motel you have to manage around that and he was fortunate in how he did but ultimately the problems that they had were were along that nature he couldn't get access to the balcony and a personal experience when I was in Darfur Sudan in 2009 I was Dinos attached to a UN mission and we were dealing with a lot of kidnaps of time and it was very difficult because you had that they were Nationals of effort of a particular stage so they were there people diplomats and security and you were dealing with the government of Sudan and then you were dealing with tribal areas the problem there was ultimately solved by a recognition of what you would call the balcony and the dance for those of us who were in the dance floor needed to create a team that had access to the bar back in Khartoum because the government's there who were trying to stay aloof were fundamental to solving this problem because they would give a party to the tribal leaders and it was finding those links and we couldn't have done it if we didn't have a team we stopped working at the coalface paused sent a team back to develop relationships in Khartoum I mean ninety miles away and then those were some the dancefloor were launching much better so wait and and it's back to that point they're about gaining perspective we said a minute ago in the Johari Window you know ask questions be curious finding the links for his doctrine says you need to be above the fray in order to do that and there could be no multiple vodka means as well you never know the truth