What leadership keeps forgetting
by Miki Saxon
The so-called leaders who, over decades, got us into our current economic mess did so because of their MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™); MAP that kept telling them that they were so brilliant that they knew best.
But as a wise man said, you can learn from everyone.
When I was growing up I had an aunt with whom I didn’t see eye to eye, to say the least. Yet, it was because of this aunt that I learned something that became a cornerstone of my MAP.
My aunt had a glass topped dressing table and, like many women of that era, she would place inspirational clippings and notes under the glass. That’s where I first saw
Profit from the mistakes of others—you don’t have time to make them all yourself.
As much sense as it makes, even back then, it’s been one of the hardest for me to follow. I seem to profit well from small and medium mistakes, but have an unhappy tendency to make the really large ones myself.
The same can be said for many of our business, financial and political ‘leaders’.
This isn’t the first economic crisis brought about in the name of profit and maximizing shareholder investment, just the worst in a long time.
As I read the news a line from the sixties hit “Where have all the flowers gone…” keeps repeating in my mind—“when will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?”
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