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Sunday, March 26, 2006

 
Leadership, distance and rule

There's a lovely article in the OpinionJournal about Freedom at Midnight and lessons on leadership. My favourite paragraph:

If you are a leader, recognize what drives you. Know your motives. Mountbatten could have resisted partition, or slowed it, or lessened its impact. He was a decisive and dynamic man, a great one I think, but if he'd been capable of introspection, of self-analysis, of self-skepticism, he might have recognized and resisted his too-driven sense of Mission, and the personal vanity that was always, with him, a spur.

This post was posted by Unknown at 5:46 pm

Comments:

A comment was posted by Anonymous Anonymous at 8:57 pm:
Hey honey- about time I frequented your blogs more often ey? *grins*...

Glad to know you're still somewhat alive, and... somewhat kicking.

Cannot believe that you're going to GRADUATE! How scary is that? Meanwhile, honours sucks. 

A comment was posted by Blogger Unknown at 9:08 pm:
Heyyyy there!

I'm kickin', I'm kickin', although it's been a longcoldhardlooonly semester. Sigh. Just can't work. So complain a lot. BUT - only 38 days to go!!!

Yeah, I've heard hons can be bad; hang in there! The rewards (heck, the bragging rights alone!) are substantial. Do you have a blog? If not, I reserve the right to bug you every two weeks or so to see how you're doing ... oh, and have I tried to sell you on to 43Things yet? 

A comment was posted by Blogger rivkayael at 12:35 pm:
Someone I knew said pretty much the same thing. The best leaders are those who took a good hard look at themselves and thought of how to protect people from people like THEMSELVES. I did that, and scared myself by the atrocious motives that I so artfully camoflage by "just being nice"...woot.
Life is sweet. Just ran 6.4 km in 41 mins =). yay me 

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