Follow Yourself; Partner With Others
June 19, 2009 by Miki Saxon
I have a great idea to make the world a better place.
Everybody who aspires to the cult of all-knowing leader stops.
Everybody who longs for an all-knowing leader embraces the reality that no such thing exists. (Jim Stroup has an excellent discussion on this that started June 8 at Managing Leadership. I highly recommend it.)
Replacing these, everybody would
- learn leadership skills;
- apply them constantly to themselves; and
- occasionally in the outside world as circumstances dictated;
- take responsibility for their own actions and decisions; and
- partner with others as equals, whether one was in front or behind at any given time.
Not that I think there’s a chance in hell that this will happen, but it’s a nice thought on a beautiful summer Friday.
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Miki,
Great thoughts, though I would love to expand them.
I was doing a search on Managing Leadership for my own blog, would like to borrow these thoughts for my future post.
Thanks
Hi Navinder, Cool, I’d completely forgotten about that post.
I’m glad you liked it and delighted that it sparked your ideas. Feel free to play off it and please let me know when it is up.