Reply To: Exercise 13: Your Models for Leadership and Emotions
Jim,
Thank you for the nudge to think about leadership within ikigai. I remember being captivated by that concept (as well as the word moai that describes lifelong friends that meet regularly and always support one another) when I first learned of it. I also appreciate learning about your past experience with leadership and some of your misgivings. Hearing you and Josh share what you wish you learned earlier is very helpful for me. Though I’m sure I’ll be making my own mistakes in order to learn. Similarly, I appreciate your honest perspective in class when you said “no one knows what the hell they’re doing” and your advice for me to trust that the discomfort I am feeling may very well be a sign that I’m moving on to the next step of leadership.
It’s interesting to see that you wrote “courage to take a leap of faith” as a quality of good leadership. Intuition would tell me that leaders make very measured decisions, but I suppose your point follows in line with your earlier statements.