Asleep At The Wheel And Face Down In The Snow - Episode 35

Influence Leadership

As leaders, there will be times that we blow it. It's inevitable. What's important is to know what to do when it happens, and how to recover. In this episode, Chris Fuller and Brett Duncan start with the story of Linwood Fiedler, an experienced musher who managed to fall asleep while driving his team of dogs, and stay asleep while falling face first into the snow. His team pushed ahead without him to the checkpoint, and Linwood followed on his own about 4 hours later. How do you RECOVER as a leader? Chris breaks down a few approaches: 1) Re-Focus on the next checkpoint, and nothing else. 2) Take time to re-evaluate and re-charge. 3) Learn from the failure without getting caught up in the emotions of the failure. 4) Rework your plan and redeploy accordingly. This episode was originally recorded March 2017. Please go to InfluenceLeadership.com to learn more.