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CONSIDER…DIFFICULT THINGS TO DO. . .

April 24, 2019 by Searcher Seeker

Good morning Gentle Reader.

These past few days I have been thinking about leaders, followers, and leadership.  I have also engaged in a number of conversations with leaders. One question I presented to each of them was: What are the six most difficult things for you to do as a leader?  Given our conversations I have been thinking about leaders and what they do – the easy and the difficult things they do.

There was a period of time, 2001-2010, that I wrote down a leader’s response to this question.  During 2010 I took time to re-visit their responses and I emerged a list.  I have decided to offer you the list today.  The six are ranked in order of the number of responses from the leaders (this is the 2010 list).  Since 2010 I have shared this with other leaders and with a number of ‘consultants’ and I have found general agreement with and support for my list.

CONSIDER: 6 difficult things for a leader to do – perhaps for most of us to do; they certainly are a challenge for me.

  1. Return love for hate
  2. Include the excluded
  3. Admitting that he/she is wrong
  4. Offer healing when wounding occurs (especially to self —- self-violence is, perhaps, the greatest violence)
  5. Saying ‘thank you’
  6. Being vulnerable (two ways)
    • Being transparent = being fully human
    • Carrying the wound gracefully (from the Latin, ‘vulnus’ to carry a wound with grace) – You will be wounded, both intentionally and un-

Gentle Reader: What are the six most difficult things for you to do?

 

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