Leave Tension On The Table

Human nature is to remove tension in relationships. And leaders are human… But tension is a friend! Tension can surface deeper differences, unsaid and even unknown perspectives. Tension keeps issues on the table. To remove the tension does not remove the issues but mostly shoots them underground to surface at a more damaging time and often incognito.

Tension removed is not tension resolved. Leaders have to learn to live with the dissonance and to use it as a conveyer to the future. Leaders have to learn how to stay in the moment, not lose their cool, stay passionate and focused and resist the human nature to remove the tension but to keep it on the table until it is resolved. That is a challenging skill to learn but essential for leaders, especially spiritual leaders!