Cultural leaders are a funny bunch.
We self-select for special as a personality characteristic, an experience quality, a social value, an aptitude, and later — after training and many more experiences — a competent set of skills and frameworks.
The first lesson of leadership is listen.
For, management it’s messy.
Planning… things don’t go to plan.
Coaching and consulting is cyclical and circuitous, borne of curiosity less than certainty.
For balance, a phrase is emerging. Something like, bend and break, both.
Each loop I go into my own subjectivity (and out of ignorant bias) takes me to this insight that not one of us arrives at leadership complete.
Confident and clever, yes.
Right and righteous, yes.
But never complete.
Sunlight sharpens the shape of shadow. We already/always/also comprise a self, and a far more definite sense of what we are not.
Descartes… oh honey, dessert!
Anne L'Ecuyer 