{"id":2815,"date":"2016-11-02T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2016-11-21T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T02:21:27","slug":"three-minute-leadership-the-joy-of-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2016\/11\/three-minute-leadership-the-joy-of-edges\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: The Joy of Edges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_Vonnegut\">Kurt Vonnegut<\/a>\u00a0wrote: \u201c<em>I want to stand as close to the edge without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can\u2019t see from the center.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>This is the excitement, joy and passion that great leaders experience as they stretch and challenge themselves and those whom they serve to push their limits \u2013 to go to the water\u2019s edge and throw themselves into worlds of unknown opportunities, of dreams undreamed and possibilities unimagined. It is the joy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Campbell\">Joseph Campbell\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monomyth\">Hero\u2019s Journey<\/a>\u00a0from the ordinary world, the call to adventure, the ordeal, transformation and the return with elixir.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0said: \u201c<em>The biggest risk is not taking any risk\u2026. In a world that\u2019s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.<\/em>\u201d Take learning from the saying: \u201c<em>Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise<\/em>.\u201d May the gentle counsel of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabindranath_Tagore\">Rabindranath Tagore<\/a>\u00a0inspire your life and journey: \u201c<em>Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf<\/em>.\u201d Choose to live not with the regret of chances you never took. Live on the edge and enjoy a spectacular view of what can be.&#8221; &#8212; Mike Reuter&#8217;s Three Minute Leadership<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Kurt Vonnegut\u00a0wrote: \u201cI want to stand as close to the edge without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can\u2019t see from the&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-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}