Three Hours of Delight
Goal #144 – “Ask my partner to give three hours of his/her time per week, to release me to do something I really enjoy.” ~ Thomas Leonard, www.thomasleonard.com
Can you imagine that?
Most of us can’t. Time is just too scarce. Just too valuable. Plus, we’re the only ones who can do what we do.
What a crazy trap we set for ourselves. Much of it is based in ego; the rest based in the concept that suffering under current circumstances is still more comfortable than changing them.
Leadership by Margin
Expert marketer (and dare I say philosopher), Seth Godin, offered one of the most powerful ideas I’ve heard in years:
“The reason they want you to join them is, that once you do, then they can ignore you.”
How frequently do we want to fit in? Isn’t that the lifeblood of most all communities? So what could Seth Godin mean?
Perhaps leadership is what he’s inviting us to consider.
Leadership by Question
As leaders in business and life, we’re called upon to have lots of answers. Frequently, we come up with an answer that works. As well, we come up with ones that don’t.
But maybe being a powerful leader isn’t about having the right answers. Maybe it’s about creating and asking powerful questions. Consider some of the most powerful leadership is delivered through questions.
Eric Vogt, Juanita Brown and David Isaacs wrote a fascinating article called The Art of Powerful Questions. In it, they explain the architecture of powerful questions. I’ve paraphrased the definitions below:
