{"id":1389,"date":"2013-09-15T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T18:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2013-09-15T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T18:43:05","slug":"three-minute-leadership-what-if-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2013\/09\/three-minute-leadership-what-if-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: What If&#8230;.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">If there are two words in the great leaders\u2019 toolbox that drive extraordinary, value-added change, be it in their professional or personal life or in the lives of those whom they serve, they are: \u201cWhat if\u2026.?\u201d\u00a0 Their power is immense.\u00a0 They create a mindset change, inviting an exploration of out-of-the-box thinking of alternative possibilities.\u00a0 They allow great leaders to look at current realities, problems and issues and then, with a simple question, go beyond them \u2013 effortlessly, painlessly and at no cost to themselves \u2013 to see other avenues open to their resolution. The answers to their question are rich expressions of their individuality &#8211; how\u00a0<i>they<\/i>\u00a0see the world<span style=\"color: #1f497d\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; so uniquely, differently and sometimes magically.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Thomas Edison wrote: \u201cIf we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.\u201d There is a world of possibilities that exist in everyone.\u00a0 \u201cWhat if\u2026\u201d is the great leaders\u2019 magical key to push the limits of their boundaries. Edison, the Wright brothers, Martin Luther King, Louis Pasteur, Steve Jobs\u2026 we can hear them all at that one magnificent moment of their life\u2019s journey quietly whispering: \u201cWhat if\u2026 ?\u201d. And from that moment on, the world would change forever.\u00a0 It is an exciting and wondrous moment each morning to dare to take those beautiful small steps.\u00a0 May you dare to change your world and the world of those around at one magnificent moment in your life you asked: \u201cWhat if\u2026 I choose to be more than I ever dreamed I could be?\u201d\u00a0 And you choose to be.\u00a0 And you change life forever.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Have a beautiful day and an extraordinary week!!!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning \u00a0 If there are two words in the great leaders\u2019 toolbox that drive extraordinary, value-added change, be it in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}