The group of people who have a “mind to grow” is a very small group. The world is made up of those who live to walk the path of least resistence. But for the ones who are willing to grow and learn and lead, there is a world waiting to be discovered and a life worth living!
Our world needs this more than ever right now. To those that have, against all odds, moved forward at a moment in time unlike any our country has experienced, thank you for showing us the way. To those still waiting, it is time to get up, move forward, and take others with you!
Leaders do the hard work of preparing personally so that they are free to help others during life’s most critical moments.
Experts only focus on their reality (the very narrow field of their expertise) but leaders must consider ALL realities. This does not mean that the expert creates conflict; what he creates is the need for leadership!
When you lead with both the truth of what is and the hope of what will be, people want to follow. We are currently seeing what happens when leaders fail to understand this most basic principle. If we will learn from the bad examples as well as the good, however, we will be prepared to lead with BOTH hope and truth when the next crisis comes.
All examples, good or bad, provide lessons that can be learned to lead through the next crisis. Who are you watching, what are you learning, and how will you apply what you are learning in your life? No event is a wasted event unless we fail to learn.
Courage: An act taken alone with full knowledge that the consequences of that act may be detrimental to one’s physical well-being, livelihood, or acceptance by family and peers for a purpose bigger than themselves.
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