{"id":2622,"date":"2016-01-11T17:48:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T22:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2016-01-12T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:45:24","slug":"three-minute-leadership-on-the-importance-of-being-in-great-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2016\/01\/three-minute-leadership-on-the-importance-of-being-in-great-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: On the Importance of Being in Great Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of his cutting-edge approach to leadership,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/beingaleader.net\/the-courses\/abudhabi\/\">The Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership Course<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Werner_Erhard\">Werner Erhard<\/a>\u00a0suggests an ontological or\u00a0<em>being<\/em>\u00a0perspective of leadership \u2013 \u201c<em>leadership as a natural self-expression<\/em>\u201d \u2013 being a leader in every aspect of your life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is becoming a natural expression of who you are and what you love. He captures this idea in the following: \u201c<em>I like to watch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rafael_Nadal\">Nadal<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger_Federer\">Federer<\/a>\u00a0play tennis, and I don\u2019t think that they are remembering how to play. I don\u2019t think they learned something, and then remembered it. For them, the game is a natural self-expression, and as such they become extraordinarily powerful players.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is this\u00a0<em>being<\/em>\u00a0to which great leaders aspire, and inspire others to achieve. It is an internalization of a state of mind that fosters a natural flow of thought and action to their leadership &#8211; an embodiment of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/changingminds.org\/books\/book_reviews\/kouzes_posner.htm\">characteristics<\/a>\u00a0attributed to great leaders as shared by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadershipchallenge.com\/About-section-Our-Authors-Jim.aspx\">James Kouzes\u2019<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barry_Posner_%28academic%29\">Barry Posner\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Leadership_Challenge\">Leadership Challenge<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deepak_Chopra\">Deepak Chopra<\/a>\u00a0writes: \u201c<em>Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Continue to\u00a0<em>be<\/em>\u00a0more than you ever dreamed you could\u00a0<em>be<\/em>\u2026 and more\u2026 so much more. Life is so very good.<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning Speaking of his cutting-edge approach to leadership,\u00a0The Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership Course,\u00a0Werner Erhard\u00a0suggests an&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-2622","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\/2622","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=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}