Friday, October 31, 2014

Show 'em

Show ‘em who you really are.

Every now and then you’ve got to step outside of your role as leader and let them see the “real” you.

People want to know that you’re someone who knows your roots and that you haven’t forgotten where you came from.

People want to know that the power that accompanies leadership hasn’t gone to your head, that you still pull up your own britches, and that you “get” that leadership is a privilege, not an entitlement. Few things are as important to leadership as confident humility.

The best leaders–the ones we want to follow–are the ones who are comfortable enough in their own skins that they put others first.

Confidently humble leaders know that leadership is not about the leader; it’s about those the leader is leading.

1 comment:

Road Warrior said...

Symbiosis
"Symbiology" redirects here. For use of things that represent other things by association, resemblance, or convention, see Symbology.
This article is about the biological phenomenon. For other uses, see Symbiosis (disambiguation). For the Marvel characters, see Symbiote (comics).
In a symbiotic mutualistic relationship, the clownfish feeds on small invertebrates that otherwise have potential to harm the sea anemone, and the fecal matter from the clownfish provides nutrients to the sea anemone. The clownfish is additionally protected from predators by the anemone's stinging cells, to which the clownfish is immune.

Symbiosis (from Greek σύν "together" and βίωσις "living")[1] is close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species. In 1877, Albert Bernhard Frank used the word symbiosis (which previously had been used to depict people living together in community) to describe the mutualistic relationship in lichens.[2] In 1879, the German mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary defined it as "the living together of unlike organisms."[3][4]

The definition of symbiosis is controversial among scientists. Some believe symbiosis should only refer to persistent mutualisms, while others believe it should apply to any types of persistent biological interactions (i.e. mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic).[5] After 130+ years of debate,[6] current biology and ecology textbooks now use the latter "de Bary" definition or an even broader definition (i.e. symbiosis = all species interactions), with absence of the restrictive definition (i.e. symbiosis = mutualism).[7]

"Some symbiotic relationships are obligate, meaning that both symbionts entirely depend on each other for survival. For example, many lichens consist of fungal and photosynthetic symbionts that cannot live on their own.[3][8][9][10] Others are facultative, meaning that they can, but do not have to live with the other organism."...Love that word...In our industry we all feed off each other...One spot fails and we all fail...We have to be a functional family to survive...