Some call it being lost. Others call it a chance to be resourceful. For many, it is not a good place to be.I’ve come to believe that is an important component of the improvisational art of leadership work. So here is a reflection (in the form of a poem) that I normally share with my students after a leadership simulation that test their emotional fortitude. I share it in hope that it will benefit those of us that like to be always in control.
When You Get Lost
Tell me what you do when you get lost
Tell me
Tell me what you feel
How things look to you
What happens in your head
What you say to yourself
Tell me
Can you see anything when you get lost
Can you hear what’s about you
Do you perceive life at all
Tell me
Tell me what scares you most when you get lost
Can you draw from deep inside
What you use to hold you up
Do you move yourself differently
Tell me
Tell me what you do to reach that special calm
Can you direct a prayer
When do you know to wait
When do you know to risk
Tell me
Tell me what you do when you get lost
Tell me
Then tell me How you know When you not lost no more
Tell me
-Carol Prejean Zippert
Adriano understands how to increase your returns on leadership. He works with professionals in world-class organizations that include Philip Morris, Microsoft, the World Bank, Johns Hopkins University, the US Marine Corps, the State Department and NASA. A skilled experiential educator with corporate leadership experience, he is the Founder & Principal Consultant of ParticipAction Consulting, Inc., a firm committed to help clients redefine change, collaboration and power in their organizations. He co-authored "Teachable Moments of Leadership" with Jill Hufnagel in 2016, on a learning methodology that gets results by going from PowerPoint to …powerful!
Adriano Pianesi | adriano@pianesi.com
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