Thinker Leaders

The expected career progression is to move up. That means eventual leadership in some sense of the word.

Amongst the excellent leaders out there, are those who are ‘thinker leaders’: those with a tendency towards technical solutions rather than team performance. 

A thinker leader mostly thinks in facts, systems, and project outputs.  Thinker leaders tend to focus on project reliability and innovation, rather than the output of the team or an individual.

Counselling a thinker leader to consider the team beyond the facts is like pushing water uphill:  it can be done but it takes an awful lot of energy.