Exploring the Directions of Leadership

Directions can and do mean different things. First we have guidance or supervision of action or conduct. I give my children direction. The next is assistance in pointing out the proper route. I told Joe to take Route 5 to the thruway. The third of this triple entendre is the art and technique of directing an orchestra, band, or a show. Balance and beauty came from the orchestra through the direction of the conductor.

In Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady’s number one beat selling book, “Launching a Leadership Revolution” the chapters of the book are:
   1. Learn: a leader must be able to learn from anyone
   2. Perform: persevere through failure to find success
   3. Lead: extend your abilities by expanding your team
   4. Develop Leaders: learn to trust your people
   5. Develop Leaders Who Develop Leaders: create a legacy

In this book, as there is in Leadership, are all three of the meanings of direction.

I will be writing, from time to time, about one of these meanings of direction, as it is applied to Leadership and becoming a leader to the level of your desire and ability.

What do you want? When do you want it? What are you willing to learn and do to get it.

These are the questions you must ask yourself.

In the story of Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks the Cheshire cat, `Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? `That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. `I don't much care where--' said Alice. `Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. 


There is no sure author of this statement, (some attribute it to Yogi Berra) "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

” Where you wind up will be based on the “Directions” you take.