We may go to work in an office or on a farm, at a school or a desk at home. We may use special equipment or depend on the strength of our own minds and bodies. We may need years of schooling. We may see our own work as unique and specialized. The bottom line for all of […]
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Dogs teach me important lessons about leadership. Though I do not live with an actual dog of my own, I meet canine mentors while walking around. It is educational to watch dogs leading their people around town. Some of them are even able to persuade their people to carry them. This week, not entirely by my own choice,
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We hear people say spiritual life is all about love. We believe it, but it is easy to forget. We are taught to think of love as a way we feel. Your love may make you feel warm and tingly, or deeply satisfied. It is an amazing feeling, a strong feeling, but it fades as we start
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I have worked with quite a few people at a variety of jobs in different places. My experience includes working as an attorney, a criminal prosecutor. There are the courses I developed and taught as an adjunct professor. There are the corporations where I worked as an executive, both profit and nonprofit. I have a
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We think of leadership as a subject we study. We learn about leadership; choosing examples, dissecting them to understand. We want to see who did what when, drawing conclusions from the results of their actions. We would like to analyze our way into leadership. We can know a great deal about leadership without becoming leaders. We become
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There are times when we become disconnected and alone. Even in a group of people, or in front of a group of people, we feel separate and removed. We continue to function, to meet responsibilities and meet expectations. We keep taking steps, doing what we do. We have become distant, apart, different. It is easy for us to neglect our need
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There is a lot of truth in working hard, deep lessons that can change our lives. We learn about work by working. We can do a great deal of intellectual analysis about work without gaining understanding. Working teaches us how to work well with other people. Work teaches us how to face, and overcome, challenges. We learn
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We act as if leadership were a magical secret power. We do not understand how or why we became leaders. It is a challenge for us to explain just what leadership is. Many of us believe we became leaders because someone else decided we were. We were chosen for a particular position, or for a training
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We are skillful at hiding from ourselves. We sail along, riding across the surface of everyday life. We want to move fast, keep going, go faster. We have places to be, things to do, people to see. We do not want to fall behind. We do not want to slow down to go deeper or
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It is more than sitting at a table in a meeting wondering Why are we doing this again? It is not just the feeling of How does any of this make a difference? It is deeper than the sense of Haven’t we already done this before? It is more motivation than for the money. Why do
