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Why Your Best Leadership Approach Is Also Your Biggest Limitation

You prepared thoroughly for the budget meeting. Your analysis was comprehensive, your recommendations sound, your presentation logical. The department heads nodded in agreement.

Then the community activists arrived at the public hearing.

They didn’t want your methodical breakdown of fiscal constraints. They wanted acknowledgment of their concerns. Connection. Urgency. Your analytical approach, the one that works perfectly in administrative settings, now created distance when you needed engagement.

Same leader. Same preparation. Wrong dimensional approach.