Golden Oldies Twofer: Three Categories of People and Follow Yourself; Partner With Others
by Miki Saxon
Poking through 11+ years of posts I find information that’s as useful now as when it was written.
Golden Oldies is a collection of the most relevant and timeless posts during that time.
I came across these two posts several weeks apart. The ideas they presented seemed to logically follow each other. This is strange only because the first one shown was written in 2013 and the following post in 2009.
Regarding the actual content, it’s still valid, only more so.
Read other Golden Oldies here.
Three Categories of People
People have longed for an all-knowing leader who they can mindlessly follow and abdicate their decision-making, since time began.
Some seek this all-knowing leader in religion; others look to politics, while still others believe that business is a better source.
Their time would be better spent accepting the reality that no such thing exists anywhere in any walk of life.
Then there are the people who aspire to be that all-knowing leader.
To that end they amass thousands of friends and followers, network their way well beyond what’s needed to be a LinkedIn Lion and work ceaselessly to raise their Klout score.
Finally, there are those who know without doubt that all-knowing leaders are in the same category as the tooth fairy, Easter Bunny and Santa Clause.
Which are you?
Follow Yourself; Partner With Others
I have a great idea to make the world a better place.
- Everybody who aspires to the cult of all-knowing leader stops.
- Everybody who longs for an all-knowing leader embraces the reality that no such thing exists.
Replacing these, everybody would
- learn leadership skills;
- apply them constantly to themselves; and
- occasionally in the outside world as circumstances dictated;
- take responsibility for their own actions and decisions; and
- partner with others as equals, whether one was in front or behind at any given time.
Not that I think there’s a chance in hell that this will happen, but it’s a nice thought on a beautiful summer Friday.
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