Everything people do is based on a decision. Not all of them are conscious.

Decisions find themselves in many routines and habits people developed. They serve them by reducing the amount, of decisions necessary in each situation. They free up space to think and decide when a situation comes up that has not yet been experienced.

However, as many decisions are so embedded within a person’s experience and the way they see the world, they will not be reviewed and simply transferred to the new situation.

These habits find their way into everyone’s understanding of leadership.

While methods are being taught and leadership ideas spread, they rarely allow us to understand how others have concluded to use them. And it is true for many situations. A person’s processing of information and their translation of internal calculations into concrete action is usually implied rather than explained outright.

Consequently, the way someone perceives the world and their position in it as well as the understanding of how it works will be part of how people enact their leadership. It is information that leaders who are perceived as role models and provided a leadership method rarely share. Sometimes they don’t even know themselves how much these ideas influenced their thinking in the situation they were in.

And yet, many leaders continuously search for methods. Hoping that the next one will deliver the solution they look for, they leave aside their ability to adapt what they see others do to the situation they are seeking to transform through their leadership.