You don't need to be told that leadership takes presence. But in my experience, leaders today have arguably fewer opportunities to show it.
Particularly if you head up a digital business or lead teams spread out across multiple locations, you're faced with generating "remote" influence at the same time that the people right there in your own office need to be kept motivated, too.
While I’ve always been pretty outgoing, it took me some time to create the kind of leadership presence that could inspire the people who work at my company—and it's always a work in progress, especially as the daily features of modern business crowd in. I used to get frustrated, for instance, when employees texted me about something I thought they could easily figure out. I felt I deserved an office.
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