Actually, leaders who have endured adversity are most likely to be the ones with resilience and resolved to succeed. Even if it is not clear, great leaders are lauded for their success when they overcome turbulence.

1. How leaders become into great
leaders after adversity?
By David Kiger

2. It has been said that leaders go through significant events or passages that
might transform both, their personal and their professional life. When events
are positive, everything occurs with calm and leaders stay at their comfortable
zone. But, when events are upsetting and in some cases damaging, leaders are
forced to reorganize what they had already made before, when thing were
more positive. It requires a mind changing, and efforts as well as sacrifices are
supposed to be mandatory. But, what is more difficult to accept for leaders is
that their personal life has to be changed as well as their professional
practices. This unexpected change affects not only leaders’ life but their
family’s life too. Nevertheless, these situations challenge leaders until they
have to do their best and show to the organization how good they are. Actually,
leaders who have endured adversity are most likely to be the ones with
resilience and resolved to succeed.

3. There is no written evidence that tells what makes someone to be a great leader. Some
people think great leaders born while others are completely sure leadership is
something you acquire with experience and studies. Even if it is not clear, great leaders
are lauded for their success when they overcome turbulence. Lessons leaders learn from
fear confrontation, problem solving and frustration transform their mind in all aspects
because, as these issues touch them in a very intimate way challenging what they think
they are made of, they reorganize their lives in all aspects.
Leaders usually have the final say and none person is allowed to disagree with them.
This has a negative effect when adversity arrives because when leaders’ mind is blocked,
they do not listen to others’ ideas or suggestions. There is not something worse than
ignoring others’ advices or comments when someone is dealing with a bad moment. This
is also closed to leaders’ ego. Since they assume they are the only one in charged,
juniors or subordinates are not the right people to talk about the situation.
Furthermore, leaders talk to experts for a solution and, even if they master in this
field, people inside the company can contribute to find a solution as well as these
experts.

4. On the other hand, leaders know they will face ups and downs, twists and
turns, detours and digressions, and even thought it undoubtable will be
painful or embarrassing for them to discuss how they stumble. But, they also
admit in private that that’s when they learn the most. Experience is something
neither the greatest universities non-the best advisor can teach. For example,
every leader sees the world and their selves differently after they have gone
through the events and the emotional states that define each adverse.

5. Although these experiences vary one from others, all of them share common
aspects such as:
o They are inevitable and random unpredictable: This adds to leader
frustration and insecurity about what he had learnt before. But, the faster
the leader deals with frustration and focuses on the solution, the better his
or her present and future career will be defined.
o These misfortunes are cognitively and emotionally intense: They test
leaders, making some qualities, they ignore they had, emerge. They learn
new skills or just transform the ones they already had into more productive
skills.
o Self-knowledge changes: Their sense of who they are changes in some
fundamental way. They redefine their thoughts about some life aspects,
especially those related to their careers.

6. When leaders go beyond their lives and not only transform themselves but
company’s operation, this is a sign of leaders’ positive transformation. Great
leaders put into practice what they have learnt from adversity in different
directions. It means, they transform their lives in a visible way in order to be a
model for others. Furthermore, they motivate their employees as well as their
family to succeed adversities. They never give up and they always are opened
to help others in troubles. Be careful, it doesn’t mean they become into
psychologist and are available to listen all kind of problems but, they motivate
other people to never give up, never stop dreaming and always trust in their
abilities. They make it while sharing and talking about their personal
experience, how they felt, what they did and what they learnt after that.
Actually, some lecturers became lecturers because they faced successfully
adversity. A great leader, born after adversity, finally is a person everyone
trusts. He or she creates conditions for growth, takes an enterprise perspective
and make an acquisition successful. Despite this is not easy, after adversity
learns more than years of study can teach, and appreciates others more.