Among the attributes that all leaders need is confidence – not too much so as to be blinded by benign overly confidence and not too little to feel inadequate.
This week’s Tuesday Reading, “To Strengthen Your Confidence, Look To Your Past” <http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/to_strengthen_your_confidence.html>, comes from the pens of Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins. Su and Wilkins are co-founders and managing partners of Isis Associates. Su and Wilkins suggest a three step plan to strengthen your confidence. They note that confidence is a dynamic, and not a static, emotion and that, similar to a physical muscle, confidence needs exercise to grow confidence. A leader’s confidence requires continuous attention:
Work to spend time this week strengthening your confidence “muscle” and take opportunities to put the confidence you develop into action.
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