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Why You Need A Truth Superpower. (Leadership #8)
Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing. - Warren Bennis, Ph.D. "On Becoming a Leader" Doing the right thing is much more complicated that what we like to admit. Doing the right thing usually means dealing in truth in...
Why No One Wants To Follow You. (Leadership #7).
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” - Henry Ford What cripples people from becoming the leader they want to be is how they deal with failure. First, their own mistakes and failures but most importantly, the mistakes and failures of...
Leadership #6: Follow The People
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Theodore Roosevelt Extraordinary leadership will be not be defined by those leaders who will settle...
Leadership #5: Communicating Responsibility
"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing." - John D. Rockefeller Every day is an opportunity - and everything you have (whether it's experience, assets or time) is an opportunity - not just to take...
Leadership #4: Imagination
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain Imagination is the ability to form a mental image of something that is not yet perceived through the senses. It is the ability of the mind to build mental scenes, objects or events...
Leadership #3: Knowledge Sharing
'Knowledge is power' or so they say, especially Sir Francis Bacon. But - I would counter, that it's what you do with that knowledge that measures your power or influence. Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power...
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LEADERSHIP
A Romantic Kind Of Feeling.
Sort of romantic, isn’t it? We have two eyes. One to see what is right in front of us, and one for the magic hidden in plain sight. I have chased wonder and mystery down all sorts of pathways and found adventure and surprise along the way. I’ve flown hundreds of miles not to miss the chance to have brief hours of conversation. I’ve slept on buses and trains to get to places I’ve longed to see, just because I wondered what it would look and smell and taste like. It’s a romantic sort of feeling, knowing that there is magic to be found in something as simple as sitting at a kitchen table.
Dealing in Hope. (Leadership #9)
Optimism can be ebbed away. But hope is shared, communal and demands participation in the process. Those who would have hope step into the storm and look to navigate through it.
This Is Not Enough.
The truth is, I do want more. I want to make a difference. Maybe it’s because I want to have children of my own to invest in and it could be that’s selfish. But I also want to make a difference to the world at large. I don’t want or need fame, but I crave influence – to enable change for the many. I’m ambitious enough to believe I could do it. In fact, in my deepest secret self, I believe I’m meant to, somehow, be part of something bigger and more significant than my life alone.
The Science Of Instinct.
The trouble with Instinct is that it’s a science masquerading as a mystery. A rarely visible one. It’s mapping the details of what you see and hear at a million miles an hour, against everything you know and what people are telling you. It’s making connections, tangible and intangible.
Chasing Normalized Beauty
I do want to be beautiful in ways that are more than just my body, my shape and my skin. I want to be seen as beautiful in all the ways that only I can be seen. I want to be incomparable, therefore nothing about my beauty can be normalized.
Do You Trust Me? I’m All-In, Whatever That Means.
I’d go so far to say that the goodness I want to bring to the earth, has little to do with my church affliation and much more to do with the fulfilment of my identity as a whole person. I’d hate for anyone who has known me to reduce my actions on this earth to “well, that’s what those Church folks do.” Because there are not that many church people living how I live or doing what I do.