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Leadership is worth it when you get to shape people’s lives in a better way. It is highly satisfying when you see people that you mentored having a wonderful growth and a care your journey.
Leadership is also your own growth. It pushes you out of your comfort zone to try new things.
AMEN!!! GET SOME!!!
it depends what you mean by leadership. are you conflating "leadership" with "executive roles"?
I would agree that most of the time, executives sacrifice their personal lives for their jobs. however, you can be a leader without being an executive, and in those cases, I do think it's common to have a good WLB.
to answer your actual question about personal experience, I successfully led a team of 50 for years and felt I had a great WLB. it took delegation and advocacy and lots of strategy, and it also took setting boundaries that I pushed myself to stick to.
I also think it depends on the corporate culture set from the top. if your top exec has a good WLB, most under them will too. if they don't, most under them won't either.
To answer your question, I would have to say: Temporary insanity. All I saw was a higher salary that was guaranteed to get higher every year. If I dared to do the math, I'm probably making less per hour than I was before my promotion. However, math doesn't pay the bills, the higher salary does. So, yes, there is some sacrifice on the altar of success. Yes, I spend less time with family than I want to or should. I try to make the hours I do have, on weekends, holidays and vacations, be quality time to offset those lost hours.
I have been that leader who worked 80+ hours a week trying to startup a new department, hire people, training and then doing about 8 different levels of counterpart meetings. It was insane going in prior to the sun coming up and going down in the middle of the long days of summer.
I delegated as much as I would but when you have a direct report level of 70 people and no admin staff, you have to do it.
At the time minimum wage was $7 something an hour American. My team was making 13 an hour. Based on my salary at the time, I think I was making like $3 an hour.
But there is a difference between running a department, trying to be strategic and being able to work with your team.
Leadership is something that makes you want to work with the people to make them better then they were yesterday.
What I was doing in that leadership role of 80+ hours per week, 80% of it was grunt work/management paperwork. 20% of it was actually influencing and supporting and caring for the people in my area. And that last 20% is why I didn’t see the sun during 2 summers.
Yes but I’m single and no kids.
A leader is the one that is responsible for how people's lives are affected. In a workplace it is the work lives that no doubt spills over to the rest of the family of the worker. A religious leader or political all have a huge responsibility involving much more than a manual or job description can quantify.
A leader and the way they envision the environment and interaction of and with each person is a way of living. There is no hours of operation in morality, ethics and empathy.