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For A Leader
by DW Green — December 19, 2011
As 2011 draws to a close, I would like to thank our clients, business partners and vendors for your business and for your friendship. I’d like to thank each of you for the positive influence and impact you have had on my life and on my company. I am most grateful and appreciative of our relationships. I am honored to work with you.
To acknowledge the end of the year, it seems both fitting and proper to share this leadership blessing with you. I am inspired by Mr. Donohue’s words and read them often.
For A Leader
John O’Donohue
May you have the grace and wisdom
To act kindly, learning
To distinguish between what is
Personal and what is not.
May you be hospitable to criticism.
May you never put yourself at the
center of things.
May you not act from arrogance but
out of service.
May you work on yourself,
Building up and refining the ways of
your mind.
May those who work for you know
You see and respect them.
May you learn to cultivate the art of
presence
In order to engage with those who
meet you.
When someone fails or disappoints
you,
May the graciousness with which
You engage
Be their stairway to renewal and
refinement.
May you treasure the gifts of the
mind
Through reading and creative
thinking
So that you continue as a servant of
the frontier
Where the new will draw its
enrichment from the old,
And you never become
functionary.
May you know the wisdom of deep
listening,
The healing of wholesome words,
The encouragement of the
appreciative gaze,
The decorum of held dignity,
The springtime edge of the bleak
question.
May you have a mind that loves
Frontiers
So that you can evoke the bright fields
That lie beyond the view of the
regular eye.
May you have good friends
To mirror your blind spots.
May leadership be for you
A true adventure of growth.
Merry Christmas!
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