The Post Formerly Known as Prince

I feel like before you read on I need to insert a disclaimer, writing about other peoples’ blogs not my thing.  If I were to put it in terms the common man would understand I would rather watch the movie Nights in Rodanthe, 24 hours, every day, for the next year, but I’m not that lucky so here are my thoughts…

I’m going to begin with the least awkward part, who was lucky enough to have a point of view similar enough to mine?  I choose you… Tom, sorry I quote Pokemon when I’m nervous.  Time to refocus, so what exactly did I learn?  Well aside from Tom having it out for the people at PMAI we shared some pretty similar views on this whole leadership thing.  Tom doesn’t seem to be into the idea of trait based leadership either, though he may have found more middle ground with it than me, I believe I called it, “depressing,” while he more poetically stated, “if a person focuses too much on these traits they can miss some aspects of a great leader.”  Tom also picked honesty as one of the traits he admired so I guess that was pretty cool too.

And now it’s time to awkward this post up even more and take a look at what I learned from the person who had a differing point of view, EmilyAnn.  Well for starters I learned that you can in fact learn something from someone you don’t totally agree with.  EmilyAnn believes in the idea of trait based leadership, but she puts a different spin on it and talks about, “Natural Born Leaders,” and “In Times of Need Leaders.”  I thought this point of view was interesting mostly because I had never really thought about “In Times of Need Leaders” before.  It made me think about situations where there have been “In Times of Need Leaders” and while they may have been fairly suited for the current task, were they really suited for other leadership tasks?

Ok time to exhale because for the time being I am done having to write about other peoples’ blogs, it looks like Netflix and my mind have dodged a bullet. To Tom and EmilyAnn thank you for writing awesome blogs but just so you are aware I may not be able to look you in the eyes for the next week, it’s nothing personal.