The idea that leadership is something universal in that there is something that unites all leaders has been around for a long time. We want to believe that we can see commonalities between successful leaders at different points in history, under different circumstances. But the idea eats at us deep down that leadership is particularistic …
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I was tempted to tell him to "google it up", then I thought perhaps I should tell him one of my favorite lessons of the Buddha - a novice asks a master the key to everything. The master says to the novice "have you finished your rice? The novice says yes and the master says …
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Reading through the literature especially Harvard's publication The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice we discover about five to seven key dualities in scholarship on leadership. But these are all dualities that also continuously frame and reframe how we as leaders think of our calling. The first is the balance between the tension of the …
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Resilience On the crest of potential calamity Ominous flashes of past fallings Come up clamoring, but facelessly To recall them saps the light of energy Steady now steady hold fast Succumb not to the trembles or the shoves Refuse surrender, but bear up under the weight Heartfelt strides forward to the mark Of light dancing …
Malcolm Gladwell in Blink says that most who study such things agree that to be an expert or rather a world class expert takes about 10,000 hours of practice. His examples? The Beatles, Bill Gates and others such types. Others say (Morgan W. McCall, Jr.) that the number of years of experience does not predict …
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Community - Part One A joyous day! Handshakes, backslaps, Embraces Or is it 100 days? Of praise, reassurances, shallow elated smiles, Simmering with unsaid expectations Everything said and all jesters read by you and them this day Are confirmatory like a blind Caesar Not knowing in the fawning needs, Community Values, and Hubris is threat …
Life The sun across the sea did rise Shearing darkness bit by bit til’ on the water and in the waves flickers and stars like the sky’s Bobbing on the mor’ soaking Drinking that flicker into the skin Clammy white flesh til blush, red, red A fire does burn on the checks in the eyes …
Dr. J. Timothy Cloyd 