Leaders may be readers, but readers are not necessarily leaders.
You can read a lot about what leaders do. You can hand books to students and lecture them about leadership. You can read blog posts, magazine articles, analyses, and ChangeThis proclamations.
You can be inspired, see visions, dream dreams, paint pictures, play with bold words, think about what you might become one day if someone gave you a million or a billion dollars.
The challenge is moving from the playtime of imagination into the hard work of execution. And effective leadership which can execute doesn’t come from books. It comes from experience.
In other words, you have to get out of the audience and into the game. Yes, you might have some initial failures. But only through repeated experience will you learn what works and what doesn’t.
Don’t stop reading—but think about changing the balance of your time between how much you read and how much you do.
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