{"id":31895,"date":"2023-03-16T21:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T04:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=31895"},"modified":"2023-03-16T21:58:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T04:58:59","slug":"31895-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/31895-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u9818\u8896\u8208\u8d77\uff01(Leaders Arise!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the movie \u201cShrek,\u201d the ogre Shrek has an interesting dialogue with the donkey.\u00a0 He describes himself as person with layers \u2013 essentially an onion.\u00a0 Walker\u2019s book, Leading out of Who You Are<\/em>[1]<\/a>, <\/em>is a bit like peeling away at the layers of one\u2019s leadership personality over time. Like an onion.<\/p>\n

Residing with the \u201ccomb of experience,\u201d the book provides me with an insight to my leadership style over last 4 decades.\u00a0 The early years of front and backstage living revived old memories of trying to find my way.\u00a0 I refer frequently to Poole\u2019s description of apprenticeship.[2]<\/a> when I think of leadership. In the U.S. Military we are thrown into an apprenticeship period of 1-3 years.\u00a0 In the process, we encounter crusty old sergeants who show us the ropes.\u00a0 We learn that there is a difference in \u201crunning\u201d a unit and \u201cleading it.\u201d That is the first year or so.<\/p>\n

In the next couple of years, we absorb the leadership techniques of our superior officers. In time decision making is woven into our leadership DNA.\u00a0 We make decisions out of habit (for good or ill).<\/p>\n

If we are fortunate, our decision-making skills are honed in part one<\/u> of our mission, preparing for war<\/em>.\u00a0 For many, the environment may change to the second part<\/u> of our mission, fighting the war.<\/em> Differentiated leaders are needed in part two.<\/p>\n

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Walker\u2019s Ven diagram was new to me.\u00a0 Especially when I template it over my 23 years in the U.S. Army. Trust, vision, movement and goals were musical chords that rang true to me. They also echolocated off Poole\u2019s 52 cards\/attributes.<\/p>\n

The center piece of power at the nexus of the diagram caused me pause.\u00a0 Frequently, my wife has said to my children (and sometimes to me) that we can use our gifts (our superpowers) for good or evil.\u00a0 As Peter Parker (Spiderman) learned, \u201cWith great power, comes great responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are choices in the use of our power, and here comes the onion layers: personality power, resource power, experience power, expert power, positional power, physical power, and spiritual power.<\/p>\n

Walker writes, \u201cIt is neither good nor bad to be powerful:\u00a0 the issue is how power is used.\u00a0 It is a question of praxis.\u201d (p.53)<\/p>\n

So true.<\/p>\n

The Russian Czar Vladimir Putin, the Emperor of China Xi Jinping and others that grip to their imperial nostalgia are becoming the essence of defended leaders.\u00a0 Hunting down and eliminating successors, breaking down governmental checks and balances, makes them free to upset the world order.\u00a0 It makes my chest tighten.<\/p>\n

A new Cold War looms on the horizon, a hot one rages in Ukraine. The decline of globalism, isolationism restored.\u00a0 All this because of the leaders, the new seekers for power, are making their play.<\/p>\n

Clearly, I have been impacted by the \u201cOscar\u201d ceremony awarding best movie this week.\u00a0 I end with another movie quote\u2026<\/p>\n

Frodo: ‘I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.’<\/p>\n

Gandalf: ‘So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.<\/p>\n

Leaders arise!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Simon P. Walker, Leading out of Who You Are: Discovering the Secret of Undefended Leadership<\/em> (Carlisle: Piquant, 2007).<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Eve Poole, Leadersmithing: Revealing the Trade Secrets of Leadership<\/em> (London\u202f; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Business, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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