A metaphor for an organisation is a wheel.
It’s well rounded.
The spokes are strong and well placed.
It is all connected by a solid central hub.
Leadership is about finding out what part of the wheel you are…
Are you a strong spoke, very good at an important function in the organisation.
Are you the central hub, holding things together in their rightful place?
Or are you like me, the space between the spokes, putting the right people (spokes) in the right place and giving them space to be their best?
The wheel doesn’t work without all of this.
Every part matters.
Find your place.
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.