Where does your talent reside?
In On Becoming a Servant-Leader, Greenleaf talks about the exercise of two major talents:
1) Operating Talent: This is "the ability to carry the enterprise toward its objectives in the situation, from day to day, and resolve the issues that arise as this movement takes place. This calls for interpersonal skills, sensitivity to the immediate environment, tenacity, experience, judgement, ethical soundness, and related attributes and abilities that the day-to-day movement requires."
2) Conceptual Talent: This is "the ability to see the whole in the perspective of history - past and future - to state and adjust goals, to evaluate, to analyze, and to foresee contingencies a long way ahead. Long-range strategic planning is embraced here, as is setting standards and judging performance. Leadership, in the sense of going out ahead to show the way, is more conceptual than operating."
Are you stronger in one of these areas more than another? Are you skilled in both areas? Is there one of these that you need to work on?
1) Operating Talent: This is "the ability to carry the enterprise toward its objectives in the situation, from day to day, and resolve the issues that arise as this movement takes place. This calls for interpersonal skills, sensitivity to the immediate environment, tenacity, experience, judgement, ethical soundness, and related attributes and abilities that the day-to-day movement requires."
2) Conceptual Talent: This is "the ability to see the whole in the perspective of history - past and future - to state and adjust goals, to evaluate, to analyze, and to foresee contingencies a long way ahead. Long-range strategic planning is embraced here, as is setting standards and judging performance. Leadership, in the sense of going out ahead to show the way, is more conceptual than operating."
Are you stronger in one of these areas more than another? Are you skilled in both areas? Is there one of these that you need to work on?
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