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Lesson: Listen to everyone, especially yourself
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David Rice, CIO Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., shared his Lesson in Leadership with Computerworld.
The lesson: It’s important to listen to a wide variety of people, but ultimately you have to listen to your own thoughts and feelings as to what’s the right thing to do. Sometimes there’s such a cacophony of voices, and sooner or later, you have to bring the curtain down on those voices and decide for yourself the best thing to do. Otherwise, you end up with a form of cognitive dissonance. Anyone in a leadership position who thinks that someone sooner or later will present them with a golden key probably shouldn’t be in that leadership position. You have to be willing and able to take all the input, synthesize it and decide for yourself the right thing to do, even if what you think is different from all the input you’ve got. Ultimately, it’s what you’re being paid to do.
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