The essay I selected from Light From Many Lamps is a piece on James Gordon Gilkey a teacher, pastor and chaplain (1988). He discusses bereavement and the necessity of facing and accepting that a loss is the first stem to manage treatment. My take away lesson on leadership from this essay resonated in the bigger …
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Cancer. The very breath one takes before saying that word is often just as long as the silence that follows it. For those poor souls burdened with an affliction that strikes indiscriminately with murderous indifference; I ask, which process reveals itself as the true menace? The arbitrary nature of tissue destruction, or the fear that …
Matt eloquently articulated Wolfe’s conclusion on happiness whereby true happiness is found through serving something greater than oneself. The premise is that people should shift to an outward focus rather than an inward focus. Wolfe argues that this is how one discovers true peace and happiness. I like how Matt drew the connection between self-awareness …
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Response to B121 – Light from many Lamps Light From Many Lamps – Part 1 Throughout this exercise, I have seen how humility directly leads to confidence in leadership. Eddie Rickenbacker gives us another example of a leader who realized that he could not have success solely by operating within his own strengths and weaknesses. By […]
Response to Daneen85 Light from many Lamps #1 Light from Many Lamps Part # 1 Thanks, Daneen for sharing your insights on the powerful example of integrating courage, compassion and faith in leadership as observed in the life of William G. Farrow (Daneen85, 2018). As I read the story about Farrow I was also touched at his […]
The story of Harold Russell is new to me but after learning about him in Light from Many Lamps (Watson, 1951) I’m reminded again of the power of gratitude even when facing significant struggles. It is humbling to learn this story of a young man full of courage and willing to go to war for …
Thank you JGarland for your “Light from Many Lamps” post on the reading in Part 2 on Abraham Lincoln (Watson, 1951, pp. 68-71). It was really well written and well referenced! I was struck by two things that JGarland pointed out about Lincoln through this post: His strong emotions/sensitivity, coupled with mental toughness. His humility, coupled with […]
Light from many Lamps Jessica, your post on Henry Francis Lyte helped me remember that failure is much more common than we’d like to admit. More than that, failure is much more powerful than we would typically like when we the impression in the world around us is that success after success is what we …
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Monica, thank you for your for your very vulnerable post regarding your personal leadership growth through the mechanism of suffering. I, too, have had a similar experience in that during my first year of senior leadership, I not only had […]
LIGHT FROM MANY LAMPS: LET ME NOT NEGLECT ANY KINDNESS, FOR I SHALL NOT PASS THIS WAY AGAIN. (P.191-193) The leadership lesson of this passage is about being true to who you are, being relational and about expressing kindness to others. Never “for th…