{"id":56,"date":"2018-10-07T21:12:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T04:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/?p=56"},"modified":"2018-10-21T10:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:06:34","slug":"response-to-ccbeau-light-of-many-lamps-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/2018\/10\/07\/response-to-ccbeau-light-of-many-lamps-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to CCBeau &#8211; Light of Many Lamps #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really appreciated the sentiments expressed in your <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/2018\/10\/08\/light-of-many-lamps-part-1\/\">post<\/a>. To me, your argument showed that you seek to demonstrate strong moral behaviour towards your followers, which is a characteristic of a Servant Leader (Northouse, 2016, p. 226). I think this challenge is faced by many visionaries who set high expectations for themselves and others. The ability to step back, recognize where you have come from and applaud the accomplishments of the group is so very important. Without doing this, leaders run the risk of leaving their followers feeling unappreciated and unseen and eventually diminish their commitment to the goals of the group.\u00a0 By recognizing the need to maintain a balance between striving for the next goal and celebrating the accomplishments of the team, you are already half-way to overcoming this situation. In this season of gratefulness, thank you for taking the time to remind us all of the importance of maintaining an attitude of thankfulness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Northouse, P. G. (2016). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leadership: theory and practice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really appreciated the sentiments expressed in your post. To me, your argument showed that you seek to demonstrate strong moral behaviour towards your followers, which is a characteristic of a Servant Leader (Northouse, 2016, p. 226). I think this challenge is faced by many visionaries who set high expectations for themselves and others. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/2018\/10\/07\/response-to-ccbeau-light-of-many-lamps-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Response to CCBeau &#8211; Light of Many Lamps #1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-light-from-many-lamps","tag-light-from-many-lamps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/walkinginmywhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}