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C Suite Support, EAs, AAs, and Event Coordinators, PLEASE walk through the day with your team and leaders. This is how you take initiative, organize solutions and stay ahead.

Dear Admin,

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If you know a ➡️Male Administrative Leader⬅️

… tag him to this post.

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Executive Assistant
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Operations Director
Chief of Staff
Director of Administration
And all them other titles y’all be using!

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Manage your hungers

We all have hungers, expressions of our normal human needs. But sometimes those hungers disrupt our capacity to act wisely or purposefully. Whether inherited or products of our upbringing, some of these hungers may be so strong that they render us constantly vulnerable. More typically, a stressful situation or setting can exaggerate a normal level of need, amplifying our desires and overwhelming our usual self-discipline. Two of the most common and dangerous hungers are the desire for control and the desire for importance.

Everyone wants to have some measure of control over his or her life. Yet some people’s need for control is disproportionately high. They might have grown up in a household that was either tightly structured or unusually chaotic; in either case, the situation drove them to become masters at taming chaos not only in their own lives but also in their organizations.

That need for control can be a source of vulnerability. Initially, of course, the ability to turn disorder into order may be seen as an attribute. In an organization facing turmoil, you may seem like a godsend if you are able (and desperately want) to step in and take charge. By lowering the distress to a tolerable level, you keep the ketttle from boiling over.

A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR LEADERS
by Ronald A Heifetz and Marty Linsky

Book: Change Management | Harvard Business Review