American Leadership
What would your leadership look like outside of an American market?
What if you were born into a third world country? There was no hope of a book deal. Your name will never be noticed. You won’t be able to host a conference. You won’t be invited to speak anywhere. You don’t have a boss.
You have a family and a trade.
How would your leadership change? Would you still write? Would you still make an effort to serve those around you? Why would you get up every morning? What would keep you awake at night dreaming?
We forget how motivating culture can be.
Culture isn’t bad. The United States has a great leadership culture. The question is just what’s at the heart of the matter. What’s at the core of why you do what you do?
April 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Very thought provoking. I have and continue to find myself wondering how in the world I could even consider “leading” with my American leadership training in a place like Zambia where the unemployment rate is as high as 70% and 1 in maybe 100 kids who are top of their class get the chance to go on to college. What would I have to offer? I can’t even imagine growing up in that society and how I would be. I would most likely be very much like the culture — though desiring something was different be at a complete loss for how to remedy it. Hmmm…kind of funny…I think that’s exactly where I’m at coming from the outside. So maybe it isn’t really so different after all.