{"id":88,"date":"2018-10-16T21:22:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-10-16T21:22:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:22:05","slug":"light-from-many-lamps-james-gordon-gilkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/10\/16\/light-from-many-lamps-james-gordon-gilkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Light From Many Lamps &#8211; James Gordon Gilkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The essay I selected from <em>Light From Many Lamps<\/em> 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 context above and beyond bereavement. The fact that many leaders will inevitably face failure, disappointment and, likely, grief. Too many times, leaders faced with these realities engage in denial and have difficulty accepting it in short and have a very difficult time getting past the issue. My own situation, with the sudden death of our son, has taught me to a greater extent the necessity of accepting reality and not lingering in denial. One of my favourite sayings is: \u201c10 per cent of life is what happens and the other 90 per cent is what you do with it.\u201d As a leader, more important than what has happened is the question of what you do with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Watson, L. (1988).\u00a0<em>Light From Many Lamps<\/em>. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/10\/16\/light-from-many-lamps-james-gordon-gilkey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Light From Many Lamps &#8211; James Gordon Gilkey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-light-from-many-lamps","category-unit-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}