Discovering Hidden Opportunities To Lead

By Hardin Byars, executive coach with HTG Peer Groups

It was a typical winter morning in London. The fog hung so thick in the predawn air that you could spoon it. As the bus arrived it was the usual packed scene into which he wedged and jostled, picking his path towards a place to stand comfortably out of the way. This morning, however, he found himself leaning up against a previously unnoticed door that popped open under the press of the crowd. The opening revealed a small, lit stairway into which he found himself drawn. At the top of the stairs he emerged onto a second level that was completely empty. “Has this been here all along,” he asked?

Do you ever feel like the guy in our fictional story? New morning … but the same old stuff that crams our plate and taxes our capacity. Unfortunately, all too often that’s the way we look at daily challenges. Yet, as with our commuter friend, if we only focus on the lower level of the bus, the untapped capacity of the second level remains obscured in the fog.

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