i know–it’s been awhile, and this is such a slacker post. i promise i’ll come back with something original soon. but for now…

i recently stumbled across the Slow Leadership blog. this is an excerpt from today’s featured post:

Are your trophies all fakes?

The problem with besetting sins is that they make you miss what you are aiming at. You want to be happy, successful, well-regarded, and loved. But, because you don’t get your aim straight — because you choose means that appeal to laziness, cowardice, and pettiness — you don’t get what you want. You can force people to say they like and respect you; you can’t force it to be the truth. You’ve missed what you were aiming at.

Then, because we keep missing, we decide to settle for just the outward appearance of what we desire: for putting on airs and graces, rather than being truly revered; for pushing other people about, in place of seeking their willing co-operation; for demanding instant obedience, instead of winning trust.

the writers at Slow Leadership advocate honesty and humanity in management and business, saying that investment in these traits will eventually lead to both profit and real happiness for everyone involved, from the top to the bottom. it’s an entirely different approach than the philosophy of cutthroat, short-term profits at the expense of long-term stability that the corporate world buys into these days.

the site is chock full of compassionate insight and plain good business practice. theirs is a philosophy i try to live by, in and out of the office.

check Slow Leadership out. it’s not visionary, really. it just makes sense.

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