Medical City at Lake Nona, Florida. Couple days ago. Client meeting.
Another voice-dictated post here, while on today’s 8-mile walk:
The favorite leader activity revolves around a couple of steps: Ask every participant to recall their favorite leader. This can be a family member, teacher, coach, colleague, work boss, any of that sort of thing. Then they self-reflect and write some notes about why that person is their favorite leader. The next step is to find a partner at a different table and each person takes three minutes to share who their favorite leader is, and why. Then everybody goes back to their original chair and we debrief: What were some of the things that you heard or said? Note: it wouldn’t hurt to flip chart all the traits and characteristics the participants share. The next step would be to ask each participant to brainstorm what it would take for their direct reports to someday in the future pick them as their favorite leader from their experience at Glacier Park Lodge during their summer of 2025. As a bonus, either at the tail end of this activity or perhaps at the end of whatever the session is (half-day, full-day, multi-day) do the 45-day commitment letter activity.
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33-second video: We named this spot ‘Periwinkle Island’. The idea came from Sanibel Island’s Periwinkle Way, highlighted in yellow below….
Upper right red arrow is our route over the Sanibel Causeway. The Causeway is 3 miles long. Leaving the Florida mainland is always a small thrill because we will be living on an island for the next week. The first island intersection is Periwinkle Way. We hang a right to drive to Mitchell’s SandCastles at the end of the second red arrow.
The most important part of leadership is the leader’s vision. Vision is applied at home too. Even for a flower bed. We planted store-bought plants last year. Flowers go to seed (just like weeds). Left unchecked, they multiply. That’s my vision. We picked periwinkles because they’re in our top three favorite Florida flowers.
Every organization has five foundational pillars.
Each pillar has several architectural blueprints, totaling 19 between the five pillars.
Leadership is the first pillar and vision is the first architectural blueprint.
It’s a lot easier to lead and a lot easier for people to follow when everyone is clear about why you exist, where you’re going, and why that’s important.
The thing with Nature is that it was here long before humans.
So long before humans it’s incomprehensible how long before.
Nature leads the way the cosmos sees fit.
i have a Nature theory from six decades studying it.
Nature takes care of itself.
In its own time.
In its own way.
Rejuvenation, adaptation, evolution.
This is how i know Periwinkle Island will flourish when the rains come.
There’s a catch though. i have to keep the ‘weeds’ (nature’s landscape shapers) from choking out the periwinkles. i’m actually trying to influence Nature so the Periwinkles choke out the ‘weeds’.
Note: Sanibel’s Periwinkle Way is prolifically lined with Palm trees and Periwinkle ‘weeds’, everywhere.
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