Yesterday I mused in this week’s “Movies with Meaning” post about the meaning of time.
Perhaps I could also have used the example of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban and featured the sub-plot of Hermione Granger and the Time Turner device that she used to be in two places at once so she could study two courses at the same time.
It seems that so many of us in this world feel we need a Time Turner, as we have so much to do, so many decisions to make, so little time… to think.
I wrote an article last year “Leadership lessons from a Swim Referee“. Lengthy though that piece is, I can capture the essence nearly as concisely as Bill Watterson with the masterful Calvin and Hobbes cartoon above.
Management is about DOING, but Leadership is about BEING.
Smash the paradigm of busy-ness, take time to think. More than that, take time to be.
I give you another link to a longer read from an earlier series, one that starts talking about the value of a leader taking time to be present to their energetic state before going to lead a team meeting, then recalls the most powerful single example of leadership on the sports field I have ever seen, one that saw a vital match won before the game started, simply by a captain BEING a leader. That article here.