I have to be grateful to Susan Marshall for sharing these three fundamentals of excellent management: Competence, Confidence and Courage. Like most powerful truths, this one seems so self evident once you have heard it, but it is still worth considering.
Nobody can really achieve success without these three, especially in the role of leading others. What is powerful about Susan’s view is that each of these can be developed through learning and training, that building competence promotes confidence, and having confidence promotes courage.
So if you don’t see yourself as courageous, don’t beat yourself up, but rather focus on building competence until people look to you in the times of need, then you will have little choice but perform acts of courage.






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1 Meg Ciccantelli // Dec 17, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Oleg: I agree with you on Susan Marshall’s leadership ideas. The three C’s–competence, confidence and courage–are teachable life skills for everyone, not just business leaders.
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