Tag: leadership

What if most think leadership is just paying lip service?

Kindle book excerpt from Spotting the Sacred

 

(photo: Excerpt from Spotting the Sacred, a forgotten Kindle download from long ago… began reading on flight yesterday)

When we hold on to cultural norms, what are we really holding on to?

Tradition? Values?

Comfort? Consistency?

A recent blog post from a famous company suggests we be bold.

Bold can get you in trouble.

It can also change things.

Everything.

And bold can become a competitive advantage.

For example, bold can be retiring early and launching something the world needs but has given up on.

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There comes a time when the time is now

Middle-aged adults have fun on a Labor Day weekend reunion in a mountain cabin

 

(photo: The audience from the Don McLean sing-a-long… check out the second from right… hysterical?)

This group has been getting together over Labor Day weekend since graduating College in 1981.

Leadership takes many forms and has many accountbilities.

Relationships are near the top.

Perhaps (even in a busy world) the single most important thing?

Carving out time, eh?

Leaving in three days for the birthplace of this late-blooming intrepid traveler.

There comes a time when the time is now.

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Leadership takes some really creative forms when given the right opportunity

Hiking to the waterfalls

 

(photo above: the middle-aged reunion group hiking to the Falls)

 

North Carolina mountain waterfall

 

(photo above: the 20-year old inspired the 55-year old to do what used to come naturally)

Thirty-fve years ago none of the 12 people would have have remained dry.

Yesterday, only the 20-year old got wet without hesitation.

This inspired another, much older intrepid spirit.

Leadership is meant to inspire.

Well played Brian.

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