Day #54

Investment

When i wrote the first edition of ‘The Social Leadership Handbook’ back in 2014, i felt confident with most of the writing, especially the chapter on ‘Social Capital’. I described it as ‘our ability to survive and thrive in social spaces’.

When i wrote the second edition, in 2017, i had evolved that language, to add ‘to help others survive and thrive’.

The reason for this change was twofold: firstly, people generally believe that they are doing ok - few of us in the day to day feel a burning need to learn something new to survive - and secondly, it was a recognition that if you are not doing well, then i cannot be either.

We are interconnected: we are a community, and the ways that we each invest in that community count.

Use your sixty seconds today to ask yourself when, how, and why, you invest in your community.

And when you do so, is it mainly for yourself, or others?