3 ways leaders can strike the right balance between confidence and caution

Extremes in confidence and caution can affect decision-making, team performance, and overall leadership effectiveness, this executive coach says.

Leadership requires a delicate balance between confidence and caution. Both are needed, and leaders must be able to move between them. Yet there are leaders whose default is the extremes. Some leaders always want to be right and on the other side of the spectrum; others are always trying to avoid being wrong at all costs. One is overconfident, and the other is overcautious. These two leadership approaches, as blind spots, can have severe consequences on their decision-making, relationships, and overall effectiveness.