Every day we are all asking ourselves the question How am I doing? The place you go for the answer will determine your success. Many of us set the bar too high and therefore live with a sense of ongoing failure. Ron Carlucci in the HBR shares some great insight:
“It’s not unusual for executives enter a new job with deep-seated feelings of being an impostor. Our research studying thousands of leaders rising into bigger jobs revealed 69% feel underprepared for roles they assume. Forty-five percent had minimal understanding of the challenges they would face, and 76% said their organizations were not helpful in getting them ready. ”