This seemed like a good thing to say, and it really was heartfelt:
#LeadfromWithin A3: #LeadershipGift is already there perhaps, but for me, others had to plant the seed and harvest it. Now I’m a #dandelion
The question was, Q3:
Do you find our #leadershipGift or does your #leadershipGift find us? #leadfromwithin
For those of you not familiar with a Tweetchat, you owe it to yourself
and your personal/professional development to check one out. I
semi-regularly participate in two, one is the afforementioned
#LeadFromWithin began and hosted by the incomparable Lolly Daskal.
Check her Website out if you haven’t heard of her. She is a remarkable human.
The way this particular chat works is Lolly and/or a co-host for the week throw out 10 questions in an hour, and those of us chatting, answer. If you haven’t Tweeted before, the catch is you have to answer in 140 characters or less, and well, we are supposed to use hashtags (the pound sign, or the crunch symbol to you fellow Linux users) to highlight keywords.
Tonight’s chat was simply put, overflowing. We actually broke the “Twitter meter” or whatever can be broken on Twitter. Over a million accounts were reached in one hour.
Back to the subject. Leadership is truly all about empowering others to lead. While I’m not normally a “flowery” type of guy, I do have my moments.
The more I think this over, the more I think: what better metaphor for leadership than a dandelion?
Dandelion seeds have those little feathery parachutes to help them fly, far away from their parent plants.
Leadership is like that too, leaders spring up, far away from their “parent” mentors. As a leader, I want to send off as many of those feathery parachutes as I possibly might send!
I’m thrilled to be a leadership dandelion!