The Accidental Leader: What to Do When You’re Suddenly in Charge
Being a leader can happen to any one of us at any time. When we are given the role of being a leader it often paints a different image of what we look like to others based on the fact that we are in charge. We never know when a situation will arise that will call us to step up to the challenge of leading a group of a few people or a whole division of a company. The word leader can often make seem overwhelming to a lot of people but after reading Harvey Robbins’s and Michael Finley’s The Accidental Leader you no longer have to question what to do when you’re suddenly in charge.
I would’ve never thought reading book on leadership would ever be helpful, after all I always thought leadership came from learning from experience, not from a book. Little did I know that The Accidental Leader would change that for me. The book written by Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley breaks leadership up into three parts: managing oneself, managing the technical side, and managing people, all in real life situations. These three key parts break leadership up into building blocks with steps preparing oneself to become an effective and prepared leader …show more content…
The most important thing I learned from this book came from chapter five which was dealing with tasks by “triaging” them. When we are in a leadership role we are always assessing situations and are faced with tasks that need to be completed. When we are faced with these tasks the authors suggest labeling important tasks by mentally thinking of them as red which extremely important, yellow being of moderate importance, and green not urgent. I often find myself doing this in group projects when I’m put in the leadership role by assessing tasks and figuring out which ones are of high importance to the group in order to successfully complete a
Being a leader can happen to any one of us at any time. When we are given the role of being a leader it often paints a different image of what we look like to others based on the fact that we are in charge. We never know when a situation will arise that will call us to step up to the challenge of leading a group of a few people or a whole division of a company. The word leader can often make seem overwhelming to a lot of people but after reading Harvey Robbins’s and Michael Finley’s The Accidental Leader you no longer have to question what to do when you’re suddenly in charge.
I would’ve never thought reading book on leadership would ever be helpful, after all I always thought leadership came from learning from experience, not from a book. Little did I know that The Accidental Leader would change that for me. The book written by Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley breaks leadership up into three parts: managing oneself, managing the technical side, and managing people, all in real life situations. These three key parts break leadership up into building blocks with steps preparing oneself to become an effective and prepared leader …show more content…
The most important thing I learned from this book came from chapter five which was dealing with tasks by “triaging” them. When we are in a leadership role we are always assessing situations and are faced with tasks that need to be completed. When we are faced with these tasks the authors suggest labeling important tasks by mentally thinking of them as red which extremely important, yellow being of moderate importance, and green not urgent. I often find myself doing this in group projects when I’m put in the leadership role by assessing tasks and figuring out which ones are of high importance to the group in order to successfully complete a