Obstacles (Often Unseen) Leaders Must Overcome

Part 1: Isolation

Often it’s not the obstacle that you can see that causes you to stumble, but rather the obstacle you can’t see that impairs, impales, and immobilizes you.

There are always obstacles. Leaders should learn to recognize both the danger in unseen obstacles and the value of overcoming them. Many obstacles are relatively easy to recognize.  However, there are several silent, slippery slopes that the developing leader must learn to traverse with sensitivity and skill.  These obstacles are extremely personal in nature and can blind, blindside and bust the leader into pieces.  In fact, these very challenges have decimated many promising leaders throughout the epochs of history.