Attending to the more important
As I completed teaching a recent course titled 'Servant Leadership in Practice' I asked the students to share their most memorable quote from Robert Greenleaf's writings. One student shared this quote:
The ability to withdraw and reorient oneself, if only for a moment, presumes that one has learned the art of systematic neglect, to sort out the more important from the less important - and the important from the urgent - and attend to the more important, even though there may be penalities and censure for the neglect of something else.
As the student shared this with the class I was immediately drawn to thoughts about the blog. For the first 15+ months of the blog's existence I posted at least 3, and sometimes 5, times each week. It was like clockwork. But, as I'm sure you have noticed, the last six months has been much quieter.
Well, there are many reasons for this - some of them personal, some of them professional. Many have good endings, yet some have bad. But the bottom line is that I have had to withdraw and reorient myself over the last six months to attend to things far more important than the blog. I hope you understand. And I hope you don't censure me moving forward! :-)
That being said, I will take some time this week to share some very big announcements with you - so stop back over the next few days. I think you'll enjoy what we have in store for you!
The ability to withdraw and reorient oneself, if only for a moment, presumes that one has learned the art of systematic neglect, to sort out the more important from the less important - and the important from the urgent - and attend to the more important, even though there may be penalities and censure for the neglect of something else.
As the student shared this with the class I was immediately drawn to thoughts about the blog. For the first 15+ months of the blog's existence I posted at least 3, and sometimes 5, times each week. It was like clockwork. But, as I'm sure you have noticed, the last six months has been much quieter.
Well, there are many reasons for this - some of them personal, some of them professional. Many have good endings, yet some have bad. But the bottom line is that I have had to withdraw and reorient myself over the last six months to attend to things far more important than the blog. I hope you understand. And I hope you don't censure me moving forward! :-)
That being said, I will take some time this week to share some very big announcements with you - so stop back over the next few days. I think you'll enjoy what we have in store for you!
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