Day #790 - Curation
Choosing your space
To choose where you stand is a foundation of Social Leadership, but not a permanent decision. In the Social Leadership Handbook, I used ‘Curation’ as the first part of the model, because it represented a deliberate act: to chose what - out of all possible things - you chose to stand upon.
It reflected the fact that we all stand somewhere, but it may be where we were put, or ended up, rather than a deliberate choice. And it’s not just about the job you do: where we ‘stand’ in our leadership is about how we carry our power, and where the boundaries of our ethical perspectives lie. Where do we stand on key issues, and as part of the social context of the organisation, as well as our local societies.
This is about making the implicit into something explicit: choosing to stand in one place, then moving again - and this aspect of motion is central in my current work in this space. Leadership as motion: within the landscape, embodied, in motion.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider where you stand, and how you got there. And if it feels like a rest stop, or a home.
I hope you’ve had a great weekend: in this space we do not seeks universal truths, or permanent answers. Rather, we are in a continuous dialogue with our practice. Leadership in the smallest of actions, but constantly in motion.
