2017 – Numerous Challenges Will Provide Leaders with Great Opportunities
Have you taken your Christmas tree down yet?
It’s such fun to decorate the tree, isn’t it? But, when it’s time to take the decorations down and carefully pack them away for next Christmas, I’m always a little sad. As I’m wrapping the delicate angels in tissue paper, my mind inadvertently drifts towards the plans and dreams I have for 2017.
My biggest gift of the season was the arrival of grandson #2. I’m so thankful that everyone is healthy and happy…including Grandson #1, (whom I was tasked with entertaining.)
As an experienced business and sales leader, we have a shared stewardship responsibility to nurture and lead the Next Generation, Millennials. I hope you’re inspired and encouraged in 2017 by this challenging poem, written by an unknown author. Next week, I’ll fill you in on the back-story of these proses.
It’s such fun to decorate the tree, isn’t it? But, when it’s time to take the decorations down and carefully pack them away for next Christmas, I’m always a little sad. As I’m wrapping the delicate angels in tissue paper, my mind inadvertently drifts towards the plans and dreams I have for 2017.
My biggest gift of the season was the arrival of grandson #2. I’m so thankful that everyone is healthy and happy…including Grandson #1, (whom I was tasked with entertaining.)
As an experienced business and sales leader, we have a shared stewardship responsibility to nurture and lead the Next Generation, Millennials. I hope you’re inspired and encouraged in 2017 by this challenging poem, written by an unknown author. Next week, I’ll fill you in on the back-story of these proses.
On Reins and Rainmakers
Matter-of-fact results of the business kind
Result from matter-of-course kindness to employee dreams
and the foresight to value far-sight
Leading with a bright vision
Means serving with a heated passion
and dropping our torch along the path for followers to pick up
The promise of opportunities draws closest
When the threat of risk is held closer
and dispersed with the light of reason
Creativity is the key
To the cage of discipline
and to turning bars of gray into channels of playful pragmatism
Outward strength fools the eye
If inward fear binds the I
and blinds leadership
Tomorrow is not yours
Unless today is
and what’s real is what’s seen
Blackening the bottom line
Begins with firing you, ltd.
and feeding the flames of us, unbounded
Resources are finite only
For those who forget the Infinite
and turn away from a Well filled with water for all time
And in the final reckoning
Defeat is not
When the will to go farther is
And the next step
is the one step
that matters most
to Success
May 2017 be a prosperous year for you and everyone you influence, as you seek to be a wise leader who, maximizes your business, while mobilizing up-and-coming leaders to realize your legacy.
Result from matter-of-course kindness to employee dreams
and the foresight to value far-sight
Leading with a bright vision
Means serving with a heated passion
and dropping our torch along the path for followers to pick up
The promise of opportunities draws closest
When the threat of risk is held closer
and dispersed with the light of reason
Creativity is the key
To the cage of discipline
and to turning bars of gray into channels of playful pragmatism
Outward strength fools the eye
If inward fear binds the I
and blinds leadership
Tomorrow is not yours
Unless today is
and what’s real is what’s seen
Blackening the bottom line
Begins with firing you, ltd.
and feeding the flames of us, unbounded
Resources are finite only
For those who forget the Infinite
and turn away from a Well filled with water for all time
And in the final reckoning
Defeat is not
When the will to go farther is
And the next step
is the one step
that matters most
to Success
May 2017 be a prosperous year for you and everyone you influence, as you seek to be a wise leader who, maximizes your business, while mobilizing up-and-coming leaders to realize your legacy.
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