Thank for the honor of being represented on your blog. I truly appreciate your vote of confidence!

Your observation about the teachers in your seminar not wanting to be public leaders – and in fact – almost feeling a need to hide their strengths and innate abilities to be inspiring leaders – seems like an example mirrored in many areas in our culture.

I often wonder how many potential, positive leaders are intimidated by ’standing out’ at an early age – and they – and we – therefore never know the power and exciting results that ‘could have been.’

I am honored, by the way, to have your Random Acts of Leadership blog listed on my own ‘Simply Said’ blog in the “Blogs I Like” list. I hope that many of my own readers become one of your regular post readers. You have a gift in presenting your message.

Thank you.

What I am interested in and committed to is supporting people in finding even the small, simple ways they personally can stretch themselves to step up or speak up. All too often people get paralyzed because they think to lead it has to be some cataclysmic event or action yet I believe real leadership happens in the everyday, sometimes seemingly insignificant, actions.

In response to your comment that you don’t see how leadership can be construed as a bad thing: I think that happens mostly when the term leadership is used to refer to people or a person at some senior level in an organization and there is a negative assessment about how they are leading (or not!). The sentiment that follows can be “if I have to be like “them” to be considered a leader I want no part of it!” The same people who complain about “leadership”, however, often also say they wish there was some REAL leadership here.

Beliefs can also hamper our leadership ability because it tampers our choice. It takes awareness to escape from its fetters.

But I know how many people tend to view power as a negative thing.

Your posts are thought provoking and I am trying to learn from your writing. Thanks. Jann

The context imposed on leadership is the very thought of how, what, who…immediately skews and gives it the fear factor, as though a leader is one who sticks his neck out to be beheaded.

True leaders are too busy leading in action rather than configuratively in thought of what it ought to be.

Thanks always, Susan, for your insights! I do appreciate it!