Leadership Theory And Practice 1

Reading the text, the reflection and relation could not be ignored.  Through the pages, the sections, the words.  They explained irrationality.  They broke down narcissism, reactive and constructive.  At least a dose of it is required.  Then the derailers, the crashers:

*isolation from reality

*conflict avoidance

*abrasive behavior

*paranoia

*micromanagement

*impostor syndrome

*hypomanic behavior

*generational envy

*Machiavellian followers

And faces appear while reading, the years of leadership.  Cringeworthy, shameful, cowardly, troubling, wishy, washy, toxic, inauthentic, and dumb.  Exhibiting all at some point, and certainly experiencing all at some point.  Some only faintly recognizable, some familiar, too familiar.  Judging.  But this reflection is awake, it moves and seeks, it understands the benefits of constant evolution.  And interventions of all types.  George Bernard Shaw was right, "We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing."  So, I shall absolutely, without doubt, home or away, day and night, in every season, through storms and drought, through tornadoes and hurricanes----keep on playing.  It is better that way.

Life is more like a cylinder than a circle, moving ahead as it moves around.