The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

When things are humming along beautifully, leading is a snap.  We can even indulge ourselves in some tangential activities because we have been able to remove our nose from the grindstone.  We join a committee in a Chamber of Commerce or a non-profit. We have a spring in our step and effuse confidence and certainty.  Our energy is electric and we infect everyone with our bonhomie.  When the plan has been set and then things don’t go accordingly, we feel we are under assault from waves of challenge after challenge.  We have to be brutal thespians wringing out the maximum leverage possible to mask our despair.  Our team take their direction from us and if we go into a hole of depression, then they will be leaping into that same hole, like lemmings following the leader into oblivion.   We ride the razor edge of concern about the lack of results and the need to maintain our optimism that this ship will right itself and not go down.  If we were emotionally stable all of the time, this may be doable, but we are cre