One question I always get asked when doing interviews is, “Whats your leadership style” , When I was younger and new to the leadership gig this question was easy. I was a driven , ambitious team player and my style was as required more driven to achieve results. As I got more years of leadership under my belt the definition of my style became more difficult. After a while there is no one style of leadership that fits a successful leader. They change, they morph, they grow and they change again.
As years pass I find my leadership style went from directive to flexible and ambidextrous and the definition by the style pundits changed too. The one thing that remained though was the fact that above all I believe in being authentic. I believe that as you grow as a leader it becomes more important to have a set of core values that never change, some boundaries that you are unwilling to cross and some principles that you refuse to bend. Does that make me less flexible or just authentic…well I think it makes me just that ME.