Do the people you lead feel like the only protection they have comes from within themselves, or do they know others around them have their best interest in mind?
Great leaders protect those around them. In the SEALs, we call this having your “six,” or having someone behind you.
Do you stick up for those on your team even when you know they made a mistake? Do you seek to take care of the needs of those on your team before your own?
Or do you promote your own successes, step on those around you to climb the corporate ladder and see people as a means to an end?
Great leaders protect those around them and even sacrifice their own comfort in the short term, knowing it will pay off in the future.
Simply put, great leaders protect those around them and don’t seek to protect themselves or their own image first.
