The action of challenge has been a recurring theme for me in recent days. I had forgotten how important it is to be challenged and to challenge others. Growth is dependent on this dynamic and as leaders we can forget that this is a powerful way to motivate, excite, engage, intensify and wake-up the talent around us. As leaders we must expand our range of styles in this domain of challenge.

Great leaders, as I was reminded yesterday, use a wide array of styles and emotions to make things happen. Styles and behaviours such as being coercive, directive through to being democratic or distant and hands-off along with many in between.

Then the leadership challenge for all of us is how to expand and perfect that range. If you limit your range, you limit your impact and therefore you limit your future!