Week 3- Reading
Friday, March 18, 2011 | Noelia Badillo
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Leading from Any Chair
In the fifth chapter of the book “The Art of Possibility”, the author reveals how leaders can make something bigger from their role, produce better results. From these leaders depends the team's success as long as those leaders are the ones who provide the people who form that team an experience of greatness. It also express how there are leaders who are not necessarily exposed to the recognition, just behind the work or behind the result but people do not see or note them directly. There are also leaders who have not yet taken the lead but they are dedicated and committed to take the lead at any time.
Rule Number 6
In this chapter the author stimulate us to lighten up, to undo the heavy burdens and restrictions that allow us to see situations or people in a negative way. These thoughts are what put barriers and wont allow us to see the solutions or alternatives that we have, to deal with certain situations. It is when we get rid of all these barriers, burdens, negative thoughts and pride that we find the center of ourselves.
The Way Things Are
This is a chapter that teaches us to transcend, to o accept things as they are, even if it’s not what we expected, we should accept and seek alternatives in the situation to move forward and not complain. Between accepting things as they are we should accept in the same way our mistakes, the author says the more we are reluctant to make mistakes the more we expose ourselves to take a posture of defeat. It also proposes to eliminate feelings of guilt, denial and escape or avoid circumstances.
Giving Way to Passion
Chapter eight focuses on letting go of what holds us back, break barriers and give way to the passion in all that we do. As an educator I have to accept that there are colleagues who live complaining daily about their function in school and many times their perception of students is influenced by the lack of passion in what they do, lack of vocation, that is why they get tired of their work and all this feelings are transmitted to their students. With no passion for what you do, everything around you seems to be against you and everything conspires for you to think that everything is going wrong.
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Great summary of this week's reading.
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