Dumbness and Lack Recession is a result of dumb leadership. When leaders are dumb in their heads, hearts, hands, and humor, the followers suffer as a result. Famine in the land occurs because of bad advice and self-aggrandizing political manipulation. In dumb conditions, vision interpreters like Joseph are scarce. The irony is that only the already powerful become more powerful, and the struggling commoners become more common. The natural resources, rather than adding value and doing good, are applied to destroy value and promote evil. When leadership values are destroyed, the palliative phrases one hears are “we hope,” “we wish,” or “we pray” that things will get better. Ralph Marston, a writer and the publisher of the website The Daily Motivator, wrote in one of his articles on motivation about his belief that we can make life happen. As an extension, leaders also can make leadership happen. Adapting Marston’s inspirational advice: Leaders don’t have to wish or hope for things to happen because they can make things happen. Leaders don’t have to wonder whether something will work or not. They can gather the resources, make the effort, and find out for themselves. Leaders need not live in fear of what life might bring. They can make their lives unfold in the way they would like to see them unfold. Leaders need not worry about lack or limitation. They can work their way through obstacles and challenges. Of all the abilities leaders have, the most powerful is the ability to utilize their talents in a meaningful way. Not only can they make things happen, they can make things happen with purpose and intention and in the service of their highest values. Leaders need not worry, wonder, beg, steal, wish, regret, envy, or wait. They use all that energy to make life happen in the way they know is best—right now. Shepherd leaders make things happen. Their followers, therefore, do not need to rely on self-defeatist appellations of “we hope,” “we wish,” or “we pray” that things will get better. In a sense, nothing appears new in leadership circles because there seems to be nothing happening today that does not have semblance to what had happened before. However, what can be new are leadership thinking patterns and products of thinking patterns.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:00:01 +0000
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