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Why Leadership Maintenance Makes All the Difference

4 min readMar 18, 2025

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Credit: Ivona Hirschi via Midjourney

What happens when your city stops maintaining your streets?

It gets messy. The payments are full of leaves, and the roads are dirty. It’s unwelcoming and annoying to use.

What happens when you don’t maintain your leadership skills?

You must occasionally give your leadership some oil, like maintaining a car or a machine. Otherwise, it will become squeaky.

And who wants to work with a rusty leader?

Back to basics

When you feel like you’re at a good place, you should probably go back to basics.

What have you been neglecting?

Leadership can be taught. Leadership is a set of skills. But like a memory, you always need to refresh your communication skills.

What could you do better? What tips can you apply now? How do you move forward?

There is always so much to work on. So, you should question that feeling whenever you feel confident and activate your ‘continuous learning’ bug.

Leadership is an ongoing commitment. Oiling your skills will help you stay flexible, sharpen problem-solving, and be ready to grow.

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Management Matters
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There's plenty out there for the C-suite. What about the rest of us-the high potential managers & up-and-comers. The future C-suite. Real leadership & management advice for front- and middle-management. A publication focused on management matters, because great management matters

Ivona Hirschi
Ivona Hirschi

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