{"id":228,"date":"2009-12-16T18:02:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubasek.com\/blog\/lifelong_learner\/?p=228"},"modified":"2009-12-16T18:02:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:02:20","slug":"every-group-has-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Every group has a leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><?php quote(\"No group is without a leader, no matter how small the group. If the leader isn't you, it will be someone else, so why not be a driver instead of a passenger?\", \"Pat Williams\", \"in How to Motivate Kids to Lead (p. 250)\") ?><\/p>\n<p>I find this quote really inspiring. One that calls to action. Leadership situations, whether we are aware of them or not, are presented to us in a lot of ways. And more likely than not, we&#8217;ve either taken the challenge or passed on it.<\/p>\n<p>Look around. Look around in your workplace. Look around in the clubs you belong (Toastmasters is a great example). You are either a leader in the group or you follow some other leader.<\/p>\n<p>Situations to lead are presented to us in small (sometimes hidden) ways. How we act in these situations can tell you whether you&#8217;re interested in being a leader or not. There are a lot of ways we can step up, raise our voice, change the direction of the group. It happens all the time. These are leadership tasks! These build up a leader. This is how we can expose our leadership qualities.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do in these situations? Do you hide or do you look for ways to take action?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really a choice of whether you want to lead or you want to be lead.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership is not just having a title to lead. Sometimes people with a title don&#8217;t know how to lead. And like I said, leadership opportunities present themself throughout our lives. Be conciuos of the fact. And remember: If you don&#8217;t step up, somebody else will. Start small. Take action. Lead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[35,130],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-quotes-i-like","tag-quotes","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}