Dilemmas of Leadership Chapter 2: Dilemmas of Destiny and Development
Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards
Faced with an important leadership problem, a helpful approach is to arrive at a simple either–or statement which expresses a way of thinking as a dilemma.
Sometimes this is enough for an idea of resolving the problem to occur to you.
At other times, deeper thinking may be required, often of a creative kind.
A powerful thinking trigger is to convert the problem into a how-to statement which becomes the starting point for ideas for addressing the problem. These usually suggest different actions than those indicated in the original dilemma.
A simple example
Jan’s dilemma
We don’t know whether to spend our holiday celebration with my parents, or with Greta’s parents.
Greta’s parents live close by, and have plenty of room for us to stay.
Jan’s parents live a long way away, and have no spare room if we visit.
Which ever we chose, the other parents will be unhappy ...
Stop the video here if you want to explore ideas of what Jan and Greta might do.
