Leadership.\u00a0 Such a lofty term.\u00a0 Such a day-to-day in-the-dirt operation.\u00a0 We tend to think of leaders as lofty beings.\u00a0 People beyond our reach doing great things.\u00a0 But, in reality, leaders are you and you and you and, yes, even you.\u00a0 You may be a good example of a leader or a poor example of a leader — or,\u00a0 as we used to joke sometimes, “I’m the non-example.”\u00a0 On a more serious note, I’ve learned an awful lot from bad leaders — I learned things I did not want to do as a leader.\u00a0 That can be every bit as important as knowing what you do want to do as a leader.<\/p>\n
I still enjoy studying leadership and leadership styles.\u00a0 I understand the value of leadership styles I do not value and, in fact, find abhorrent.\u00a0 I see more clearly the value of a good follower — which is key to being a good leader.\u00a0 I also see more clearly the need for leadership at all levels, including self-leadership.\u00a0 Because, seriously, if you can’t lead yourself, how can you expect anyone else to consider you worth following?<\/p>\n
Mothers and fathers are leaders — they are the first leaders we encounter, and they have a tremendous influence on us in our lives.\u00a0 Teachers , coaches and bosses are leaders.\u00a0 Co-workers and siblings are leaders.<\/p>\n
Who are some of the best leaders you’ve encountered in your lives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leadership.\u00a0 Such a lofty term.\u00a0 Such a day-to-day in-the-dirt operation.\u00a0 We tend to think of leaders as lofty beings.\u00a0 People beyond our reach doing great things.\u00a0 But, in reality, leaders are you and you and you and, yes, even you.\u00a0 You may be a good example of a leader or …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-z-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}