When my wife and I took our four children to Disneyland for the first time, I used the trip to test my external self-awareness. I'd watch my kids throughout the week. At the end, I'd predict each child's favorite moment given the choices we as parents made about what to do with them at Disney. This is easy, I remember thinking. My oldest son raved about Space Mountain. My daughter couldn't get enough of the Carousel. I got all four of my predictions wrong. When I asked my children one at a time, they all said their high point was swimming at the hotel at the end of the day. Apparently, we didn't need to spend thousands of dollars on a hotel, park passes and food: All we needed was a pool!
External self-awareness is the ability to predict how others experience our leadership, including how they view us, our actions and our choices. It allows us to better collaborate, lead and motivate our teams - and yet my research and others' research shows only around 10-15% of leaders, including entrepreneurs, embody it.
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