Raise Your Game: Second Chair Leadership

Mar 27, 2016 • 1 Min Read

We put plenty of focus on developing the skills of a leader. But what about the people behind the leader, providing support, advice and making sure everything goes according to plan?

Lay Hsuan, Lim from Leaderonomics talks us through what it means to be a second chair leader.

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Lim Lay Hsuan

Lay Hsuan was part of the content curation team for Leaderonomics.com, playing the role of a content gatekeeper as well as ensuring the integrity of stories that came in. She was an occasional writer for the team and was previously the caretaker for Leaderonomics social media channels. She is still happiest when you leave comments on the website, or subscribe to Leader's Digest, or share Leaderonomics content on social media.

Leadership got easier for me the day I stopped treating it like a performance and started treating it like a puzzle. Not a single, flashy riddle, but a series of small, repeatable problems that reward patience, pattern spotting, and clean handoffs. The field, the court, the office — they all turn into grids of signals once you learn to look.

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