Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Leadership Qualities as Twinkle Lights

When we did our introductions yesterday we were asked to state a leadership quality that is important to us. Not surprisingly, the 40 of us came up with about 40 different qualities (see below) and during the debriefing someone pointed out that it seems an impossible goal to embody all of these qualities at once.

It occurred to me that our leadership qualities are like internal strands of twinkle lights. The lights twinkle which harken to the point that we don't necessarily want every single leadership quality to be engaged at the same time but just ones that make sense for the given situation. Sometimes it might look like the lights are moving in order, other times the lights look like they're flashing randomly. Sometimes they flash slowly, other times quickly. 

What is important is that we have all of the qualities on our strand so we can light them up when we need them. If they were to be lit all of the time...is that even possible? What would that look like?

(Ill edit these pics later)


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