In his post on James Gordon Gilkey, Beange challenges the leader to accept reality and keep moving. (Beange, 2018).  Inevitably leaders will face hard decisions, errors in judgement, or personal challenges. Instead of being lost and frozen in the moment, keep from lingering in denial and grief.

This is a word well spoken.  Leadership, or just life itself can provide obstacles which can seem too great to overcome. A mountain is climbed one step at a time and an elephant is eaten one bite at a time, in either case, action is required.

As I reflect on a time when I was unsure of how to move forward, or how to find an answer that I did not have to the question I faced, action was required.  I called on the wisdom of trusted employees to provide wisdom from their individual perspectives. Together we developed a response to the situation, it involved one of them to step forward into a space that I would not have recognized.  In a short time, not only had I moved forward but the whole department had moved forward.

Benge states that the most important thing is”what we do with a situation” (Benge, 2018). Whether we seek the advice of others, find a different perspective, or ask a different question, when it comes to difficult situations, leaders must keep pushing forward.

Benge J. (2018). Light From Many Lamps – james gordon gilkey. retrieved from https://create.twu.ca/norm/2018/10/16/light-from-many-lamps-james-gordon-gilkey/