Responsibility for Choices

Personal Leadership: If It's to Be, It's Up to Me

We may not choose to be victimized, but we choose whether or not to be a victim. Leaders take responsibility for their actions in response to circumstances for which he or she is not responsible

. Choice, more than chance, determines our circum

stance. I choose whether to see the world through optimistic or pessimistic glasses. Either choice becomes my re

ality.

Leading Others: From Victim to Victor

When faced with difficult changes or problems, we have three choices. We can be a Survivor and just hang in there waiting to see what happens. Or we can choose to be a Victim, using the situation as one more example of how crap like this is always happening to us. The third choice – the leadership choice – is to be a Navigator. Leaders take initiative and navigate their team through doing what needs to be done rather then waiting for "them" to do something.