A thought by John Townsend from his book, Leading From Your Gut (p. 88). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) You really can’t! John goes on, “In fact, they are critical to your success. I have to challenge many leaders about this because they are concerned that talking about anything negative will diminish their effectiveness. They would much rather be positive, energetic, and focused on taking the next hill. I’m as much a take-the-hill person as the next, but a team that doesn’t learn from the defeat on the previous hill is in jeopardy of repeating that defeat. “Every competent leader will look at things like negative financial reports, market problems, and sales issues, and dig into them, as the saying goes, ‘eating problems for breakfast.’ The same needs to be true with negative feelings. They’re just information, and they mean something.” John says, “Don’t minimize your negative emotions and say, ‘That’s t
Continuing a thought from a book I am reading...