Yes, Leadership is about Doing Right
Influential Leadership is fundamentally about doing the right things right to influence and shape change for the betterment of humanity.
The five imperatives of the aforesaid construct are:
- intention,
- doing,
- right,
- better, and
- humanity.
Those of you who have worked through the Alpha Programme or spent time with any number of our Leadership Weekly Notes, will appreciate that these are some of the key issues we emphasise repeatedly.
On occasion I come across other people’s thoughts and practices that neatly capture the Influential Leadership System’s ethos, and what we aim to achieve (change for the better, inclusively).
I offer you one such gem as our Note this week.
It comes from Martin Luther King Jr, the American civil rights activist who had a fantastic turn of phrase—he was indeed a master orator.
Other than three minor edits, I leave his words for you to think through…
One of the great tragedies of life is that [people] seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves.
On the one hand, we proudly profess certain sublime and noble principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practise the very antithesis of these principles.
How often are our lives characterised by a high blood pressure of creeds and an anaemia of deeds!
We talk eloquently about our commitment to [laudable] principles, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of [corruption].
We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practise the very opposite of the democratic creed.
We talk passionately about peace, and at the same time we assiduously prepare for war.
We make our fervent pleas for the high road of justice, and then we tread unflinchingly the low road of injustice.
This strange dichotomy, this agonising gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of [people’s] earthly pilgrimage.
Martin Luther King Jr, Strength to Love
If you would like to read about MLK Jr, Britannica is a useful place to start.
It is for this very reason—the gulf between saying and doing—that the Influential Leadership System is a PRACTICE—not a model, not a theory, and not an idea—but a way of intending and doing right (for the betterment of our lived lives).
If you have not yet joined the Leadership Movement, you’re invited to do so! Chat with me today.
Regards,
Colin @ Karoo
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