Lammers Leadership Evolution

Wisdom is the virtue that, the more you acquire it, the more you realize there is for you to acquire. And wisdom cannot be acquired without humility, without knowing it’s not about you and you are a small part of something much bigger, that which exists outside your temporal existence.

Truth, when spoken clearly, and without condemnation, malice, or ill will, is an act of kindness. Done well, the truth, even the most difficult truth, is an act of love. It takes humility to speak the truth. Otherwise, it is a selfish act. Love works only with humility. 

“You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn.

The implication is that you have to be careful, judicious, cautious, selective, and many other adverbs in choosing who you spend time with. Want to get better? Be a better leader? A better son, daughter, mother, father, teacher, etc.? Always be looking for who you should be spending time with.

Key question: Are these people I want to be like?

Because these mentors can be few and far between, it doesn’t have to be an actual person, though that is really helpful. It can be through reading, especially biographies of great people, people you admire, heroes.

Antiheroes can also be helpful as well. Sometimes it’s easier to learn what not to do. They can teach you something also.

This is our parish priest. Instead of a quiet evening, one of few, he’s helping at the fish fry, demonstrating the servant leadership that so many talk about. Here he is living it out as an example of being in the world. And it’s cold! Trust me, your example never goes unnoticed!

Leadership: To work in ambiguity while those you lead look to you for clarity and certainty. Wisdom shows you there are no perfect answers, that things are complicated.

Leaders, are you working "on" your organization or merely "in" it?
* "In it" is focusing on managerial tasks, the day-to-day-are-the-trains-running-on-time things that are important, to be sure.
* Working ON your organization is thinking about and cultivating the culture, values, and people who do the actual work in which you lead them.
* This isn't a one-off, 1/2 day seminar with pizza and a casual dress day. It's a day-in, day-out, relentless focus on the mission and purpose, the theoretical reason why the people show up every day.
* If you think that you've communicated enough, focused enough, you haven't.

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