\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201c\u2019Which one do you want?\u2019 – There were 100 quarts of strawberries at the farmer\u2019s market yesterday. In answer to the farmer\u2019s question, the person ahead of me in line spent a full minute looking them all over before picking one. The thing is: 90% of the strawberries in a quart are hidden from view. They\u2019re beneath the top layer. There\u2019s no strategy to tell which quart is better than the other, unless you (erroneously) believe that the top layer is an accurate indicator of what lies below.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He writes: “We get satisfaction out of picking, even if we know that our data is suspect and evidence is limited. We like the feeling of power and control, even though we have very little. If all you\u2019re seeing is the top layer, you\u2019ve learned nothing<\/em>.” This lesson is not lost in the decision-making of great leaders. They realize the importance of looking beyond the surface, whether it is a person or an issue. There is always something deeper and more profound to be known and understood. As\u00a0Anaxagoras<\/a>\u00a0wrote: \u201cAppearances are a glimpse of the unseen<\/em>.\u201d Additional steps are needed to transform appearances into reality.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Godin states: “The real information comes from experience. If the farmer is the sort of person who won\u2019t put the clinkers on the bottom, she\u2019s earned our trust<\/em>.\u201d Experience, data, words and actions serve to peel back the surface to a true reality. May we relish, enjoy and welcome the beauty and excitement of new ideas, perspectives and people. May we seek to understand their true greatness in the depth of their innermost realities as we reflect on the words of\u00a0Samuel Butler<\/a>: \u201cLet us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only<\/em>.\u201d<\/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 his blog post,\u00a0The Trap of Insightful Selection,\u00a0Seth Godin\u00a0shares a story that provides a powerful analogy of the… <\/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-3047","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\/3047","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=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"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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