“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” (Roosevelt, 1933).These ten powerful words struck a deep sense of ease and confidence into the heart and minds of millions who listened to Roosevelt’s inaugural speech. Roosevelt did have an economic strategy in mind to help lift the United States out of the Great Depression, but he did not open with “I have a plan”.\u00a0 Instead he spoke to a greater need than even the economic strife in the country, he spoke to the fear in the hearts of the people.<\/p>\n
The leadership lesson revealed here is enormous.\u00a0 People like to know that there is a plan, I have never encountered a leader who seemed aimless and meandering who had strong support from his followers.\u00a0 More than a plan however, when times are challenging and difficult, people need to be recognized.\u00a0 For a leader, to both see and hear his people and speak to them about you and your before\u00a0 speaking about me, my and I is both profound and powerful.\u00a0 Other presidents followed Roosevelt’s lead and surprisingly even President Trump spoke during his inauguration for 549 words about “we,” and “our” before finally, well into his address, speaking word 550 was “I” (Trump, 2017). It is important for the leader to see his people and lay out the vision as something that will be accomplished by the whole group and for the whole group.\u00a0 I believe that this approach lays the foundation within an organizations for transformational leadership to take place.<\/p>\n
For myself, I have the privilege of working with an amazing group of people who work tirelessly and selflessly without much complaint.\u00a0 I will remember this leadership lesson and ensure part of my practice is that people are both seen and heard as a means of carrying out my vision as a leader.<\/p>\n
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Roosevelt, F. (1933). In L.E. Watson (Ed)\u00a0Light From Many Lamps: a\u00a0 treasury of inspiration.\u00a0<\/em>New York, NY. Simon and Schuster.<\/p>\n Trump, D. (2017). Inaugural Address. sourced from\u00a0www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/the-inaugural-address\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” (Roosevelt, 1933).These ten powerful words struck a deep sense of ease and confidence into the heart and minds of millions who listened to Roosevelt’s inaugural speech. Roosevelt did have an economic strategy in mind to help lift the United States out of the Great Depression, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,29],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-lightfrommanylamps","category-unit4","tag-light-from-many-lamps","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}