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Some of life\u2019s and leadership\u2019s basic lessons are fundamentally simple and obvious. Yet, along the way, among the seemingly endless multitude of professional and personal priorities that fill the great leaders\u2019 journey, these lessons are muted and sometimes lost, only to be found again in a momentary pause that again highlights their critical significance in the full and meaningful living of their life. We find them now in Huntsman\u2019s words:\u00a0\u201cPlan your funeral, start early, by being kind.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In his book,\u00a07 Habits of Highly effective People<\/a>,\u00a0Stephen Covey<\/a>\u00a0teaches great leaders a valuable leadership principle:\u00a0Begin with the End in Mind<\/em>. Great leaders ardently embrace this principle tightly knowing that understanding and committing to their end purpose\/goal serves as the pathway for everything they will do to achieve it. And so it is when Huntsman writes:\u00a0\u201cPlan your funeral, start early, by being kind.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>What do you choose that people will say of you? \u00a0Mark Twain<\/a>\u00a0wrote:\u00a0\u201cKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>May your kindness and caring touch the lives and hearts of those whom you serve. These beautiful actions will be the paving stones of the steps of your magnificent journey.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mike<\/p>\n To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning In a recent Knowledge@Wharton article,\u00a0Remembering Jon M. Huntsman, Sr.: Lessons from a Compassionate Leader,\u00a0Huntsman\u00a0writes:\u00a0\u201cI have attended many funerals… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"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-3040","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\/3040","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\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\")
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