Day #742: Looking Around

Social Leadership as looking around and within

As the week draws to an end, I carry out the usual checks: what is unfinished, what can I celebrate, where am I grateful… and what have I forgotten! Some weeks end with a cruise to the finish line, others with a crash into the barriers.

Constant through this is some of the open ended work I do, like the writing on the Blog, and of course our Community here. There is a tempo, a rhythm, but no defined end point. It’s an exploration, a dialogue, not a book, not a task list.

I’ve spoken to a few people about this Community this week: describing how we are informal but purposeful, unfocussed, yet rooted in our practice. Idealistic perhaps, but grounded by an engagement with the impact we have, the shadows that we cast.

Use your sixty seconds today to look back upon your week.

Where do you stand, what has landed, what has failed, what are you celebrating, where are you grateful.

Not as a score, a metric, but as a sense of your ‘self’ within the landscape of your leadership. Taking stock, considering which parts you wish to explore, and those that you are comfortable with.

This is Social Leadership expressed as the willingness to look around, and to look within.