45  Conflicting Leadership Advice? Here’s What Actually Works.

16 Mar 2025 | Confidence, Defined aims, Leadership, Purpose, Self awareness

Emma Strack

Emma spent ~20 years as a Global Restructuring Accountant at KPMG, working in the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia. Now an Executive Performance Strategist & Internationally Accredited Executive Coach, she helps leaders around the world decode how they best think, operate, & lead - using science, not guesswork. The result? Sharper thinking. Faster decisions. Stronger leadership.

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45  Conflicting Leadership Advice? Here’s What Actually Works.

💭 Be strong, be vulnerable. Speak up, listen more. Take risks, play it safe.

Leadership advice is often contradictory – and here’s why:

➡️  It’s usually someone else’s truth.

When you follow the latest advice without first understanding what you’re genuinely great at, it wastes time, energy – and often, results.

Here’s what works: Develop your leadership style around your natural strengths. The best leaders know that lasting impact comes from refining what already works – not forcing what doesn’t.

🧠 When you understand what you do best – and how you work most effectively – decisions come faster. You communicate with more precision. And your impact becomes far more consistent.

🎯 Try this today:

🔹 Take a piece of leadership advice that hasn’t quite landed. Instead of forcing it, rework it to align with a strength that comes naturally to you.

For example: If the advice is “speak up more” and you’re naturally a thoughtful listener, try “ask one powerful question in the next meeting.”

🔹 Notice what happens when you lead in a way that reflects your strengths, not someone else’s script.

👉🏼 Real leadership isn’t about collecting advice. It’s about translating it into your own playbook.
👉🏼 Want to discover what you do best, and how to lead from it more strategically? My Optimal Performance Discovery is the starting point.

💡 Exceptional results aren’t guessed – they’re engineered.
Lead with your strengths. Align how you operate. Use science to drive strategy.

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Created for inspiration and reflection only. Not advice.