From the course: Running a Design Business: Leading a Creative Team
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Understanding doers vs. leaders
From the course: Running a Design Business: Leading a Creative Team
Understanding doers vs. leaders
- [Instructor] So, we touched on this already a little bit, about this difference between the execution part of your career, the doer part, and then there's this transition to becoming a leader. And really, the hard part of this is that that transition into leadership is where I see so many potential leaders fail. They struggle. They've done so well. They've been such good designers, such good writers, such good thinkers, but now you put 'em in charge of a team. Now you asked them to take on a different role, and all of a sudden, all that success seems to evaporate. Well, why is that? It's because I really feel like there is a disinherent challenge that because I'm good at creating, because I'm good at executing, that doesn't honestly mean that I have any of the skills that I need to be a good leader. Well, let's go back and take a look at this arch of your kind of creative career to really take a look at this and try to understand it. Because we said that you go from somebody who is…
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