on life and leadership
You have potential to change your enterprise, the world it serves and the world at large. A sad truth: while you the ability to change the world you might never. This is not because you don’t get the funding that you need to get your non-profit off the ground. Or to go somewhere in the world …
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There’s a lesson from Abraham Lincoln’s legacy to learn. He dared to look down on people and circumstance that discouraged him. He did what a significant number of Americans were against when he declared the emancipation of slaves. He dared to drive change with the heart of uniting a nation and setting precedence for the …
The by-product of pursuing your cause and rallying people behind it is attention. There will always be more people than you think, watching you. Every now and then, those watching (or stalking, if you are ever so lucky) you will be made or will make themselves clearly visible. For the sake of the cause the audience …
Being visible comes with being a heretic. Challenging the status quo is noisy and, sometimes messy. This will always draw attention. It takes courage to do significant things. This is because there is always the unknown. You will need to be intentional to always have courage to take risks.
Followers naturally respond better to bold statements, decisions and actions compared to indecisiveness. Supporters you cause are accelerators. As easily as they can help build momentum for the cause you lead, a lack of boldness can make them part of the machinery that destroys your momentum, discrediting your leadership and ultimately the cause.
