Startup Guides > Leading With Perspective

As a business owner or startup entrepreneur, you are responsible for building an effective team and enabling your employees to do their best work. To do that well, you need to have perspective, which is the ability to create a point-of-view based on imagining yourself in another's shoes.

Awareness about ourselves and others is difficult to gain. We naturally pay more attention to people who are above us in the social hierarchy, so those at the top have to be aware of that bias in order to overcome it.

No matter your current level of perspective, your skills can improve with practice. Try out these 3 ways to get started and gain more perspective as a leader:

1) Record and review your behavior.

To gain insight about others' reactions to your behavior, observe yourself in a group setting. Try recording a meeting and listening to it afterward. ..