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An Emerging
Leadership Philosophy
An Emerging
Leadership Philosophy
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For nearly 500 years, the word “legacy” was used exclusively as a noun to signify a “gift” or “bequest” transmitted from one generation to another. The noun, legacy, carries a wholly positive meaning and represents an act of love, charity and care.
Two of these three stances are about you: Are you in it for the money? Are you in it to get ahead? Or are you in it to serve someone?
How will you measure your life? How can you know your life’s purpose? These are not questions that are easily answered.
Which came first: The concept or the details? It is easier for us to understand things when we are first presented with a concept and then supplied with details that allow us to better understand or improve the concept. It is as if “new information” has to somehow attach itself to something we already know in order for us to make sense of it.
Learning is selective. When we experience life we naturally level, sharpen, and assimilate what we perceive into a story. It becomes our story. We level out what does not make sense to our existing view, we sharpen up what makes more sense, and we assimilate it into a story – an improved perception of the truth.
In a recent article in The New Yorker magazine (June 23, 2014) Jill Lepore comments on the works of two of The Harvard Business School’s most prestigious professors, Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen. Porter coined the term “competitive advantage” in 1980, and Christensen coined the term “disruptive innovation” in 1997.
When it comes to Systems thinking, most westerners are more comfortable with the “analysis” of the parts than with the “synthesis” of the whole. The opposite seems to be the case with most eastern cultures. Why is this true?
Implicit in this expression is the inference that our thoughts and our actions are not always in sync. In other words, we are not nearly as rational as we like to believe we are.