Becoming A Modern Leader with Sara Canaday

Live Like Your Nail Color Podcast with Mary Foley

Are you willing to shake up the way you think, work, and lead? The relentless pace of business today is taking a serious toll on all of us. We might strive to be purpose-driven, impactful, and innovative, but we are often hijacked by never-ending to-do lists and constant crisis management. So, what is the solution? Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as throwing out the old rules and learning new ones. It’s about developing the insights to know when to follow conventional leadership wisdom and when to defy it. Today’s gal pal, Sara Canaday, is here to share some of those insights.

Sara Canaday is an author, keynote speaker, and executive coach. Her book, Leadership Unchained: Defy Conventional Wisdom for Breakthrough Performance, really got my attention. She says that traditional wisdom that molded leadership for years is losing its effectiveness in our chaotic, digitally overwhelmed world. In some cases, those principles may even be impeding your progress!

In this episode, we talk about:

• The issue with a bias for action
• How to create a stop-doing list
• How to evolve into a modern leader
• Navigating the brave new world of communication in leadership

Here’s a glance:

[3:58] Sara's nail color persona is a Solid Sister and her go-to is Bubble Bath.

[7:10] In her book, Leadership Unchained, Sara explores the traditional success principles, such as a bias for action, that bog leaders down.

[14:47] The modern leader knows when to defy conventional wisdom and knows when to use it.

[17:43] Sara shares strategies to flip traditional success principles into modern leadership principles and Mary shares her quiz results.

[24:00] Sara offers a counter-intuitive strategy to create the time necessary to take a long strategic pause.

[31:52] An additional suggestion for traditional leaders who want to evolve into modern leaders, is to resist the temptation to overly rely on your own expertise.

[37:55] What strategies do leaders find challenging and what is the risk to leaders if they don't evolve?

[45:50] Sara’s nail color to inspire people to be modern leaders is ‘Good Enough Garnet’.

[48:00] In the Flip to Chip segment, Mary highlights what Sara said about flipping one of the most common leadership strategies of having a Bias for Action.

Shareables:

“We need to look for those unusual connections ... and we can’t begin to do it if we are constantly in a bias for action.” — Sara Canaday on @livelikeyournailcolor

“Start making a stop-doing list, instead of a to-do list.” — Sara Canaday on @livelikeyournailcolor

“The more stressful things are, the more inclined we are to hold and cling tight to what we have always done.” — Sara Canaday on @livelikeyournailcolor

Discover more about Dr. Sherri:

saracanaday.com

Leadership Unchained book (https://saracanaday.com/leadership-unchained-buy-the-book-today/ )

The Modern Leader Index Assessment (https://saracanaday.com/the-modern-leader-index/ )

LinkedIn @SaraCanaday

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