When Laurie McGraw asked the Chief Product Officer at Care Lumen for her best advice for aspiring leaders, Cara described the exact trap catching ambitious mid-level leaders. You spend years fighting to get your voice heard. You build credibility by having the right answers. You show up to meetings ready to prove you belong at the table.
Then you get promoted to VP or C-suite. And that exact behavior becomes the liability holding you back.
Cara spent her managerial and director years coming to every meeting with her opinion ready, trying to get every word in to make her case. That's what managers do. That's what gets you noticed and promoted. But something has to change when you grow beyond that level, and most people never figure out what.
Executive leadership isn't about having the best answer. What Cara reveals about the intentional communication change she had to make explains why some executives build teams that would walk through walls for them, while others end up with halfhearted execution and high turnover.
The counterintuitive practice she describes feels wrong when you first start doing it. But it's the difference between being the smartest person in the room and being the leader who makes the entire room smarter.
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Laurie McGraw