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In this episode, our guest is elite executive coach, speaker, and author Sabina Nawaz. She shares what it means to “pressure-proof” your leadership under the toughest conditions.
One of the biggest leadership challenges we all face these days is unrelenting pressure. This includes pressure from uncertainty, pressure from complexity, and competing demands from your many stakeholders. Navigating in an environment where everything is up for renegotiation, debate, redefinition, and huge amounts of disagreement can take a toll on any of us. Not only that, it can create a sense of isolation that drives a wedge between how we’d like to show up as leaders and how we actually behave on a daily basis.
Sabina Nawaz is an elite executive coach, speaker, and author. She advises C-level executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions worldwide. Sabina gives dozens of keynotes, seminars, and conference speeches each year and teaches faculty at Northeastern and Drexel Universities. During her fourteen-year tenure at Microsoft, she went from managing software development teams to leading the company’s executive development and succession planning efforts for over 11,000 managers and nearly a thousand executives, including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Sabina has written for and been featured in Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, NBC, Nasdaq, and MarketWatch. She’s also the author of the book “You’re the Boss, Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need).”
We discuss Sabina’s insights about why she believes that pressure, not power, may be what corrupts leadership behavior, based on her research and her own experiences as a top leader. We discuss her belief that adopting a “minimalist contrarian mindset” can help challenge default behaviors and make room for more effective ways of leading. Sabina describes how adopting small, immediately usable practices she calls “micro-habits” can ease the way into significantly improving our leadership. We also discuss three immediately useful guidelines to “pressure-proof” leadership when the stakes are high.
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“It’s not power that corrupts us. Pressure corrupts us, and then power comes along and isolates us from the harm we might be causing.” – Sabina Nawaz
This week on Growth Igniters® Radio:
- Sabina’s take on why she believes that pressure, not power, may be what corrupts leadership behavior
- Sabina’s belief that adopting a contrarian mindset can help us challenge default behaviors and make room for more effective ways of leading.
- How adopting small, immediately usable practices can ease the way into significantly improving our leadership
- Three practical guidelines for making ourselves grow into more “pressure-proof” leaders
Resources for This Episode
- Read more about Sabina Nawaz and connect with her on LinkedIn
- Find out more about Sabina’s book, “You’re the Boss, Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need).”
- Find out more about Pam’s keynote “Break Orbit: Achieving Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term World”
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