WK2 Response #2-Timothy Bemiller

Tim wrote:

The Chapter 5 reading was very cool in the way it communicated proper leadership. The main theme to me was that leaders are in place to nurture and guide those under their leadership. This concept of leadership does not need to be in your face and dictator oriented. The concept to me is that leaders can lead and inspire from a rather subdued role, hence the name of the chapter. I like the idea that a leader’s main role is to make the people better through well timed insight and wisdom that is not intended to put people down, rather to lift them up.


I am not an intense person. I do however love to lead the group if I feel I am qualified to do so. I lead in the way the book identifies and that makes me feel good about my style of helping those around me. I thrive off of making people better and not just controlling them.

I commented:

Good post, Tim...I really have to agree. Personally, either through experience or general wisdom, I tend to listen to most anyone along the chain of command, because one never knows when someone even on the lowest of the totem pole has a better idea. It's those who shut everyone else out who really suffer and as a result make others suffer as well. I think I have some sort of deal with kharma that as soon as I start thinking that I am the end all be all and noone else knows what they're talking about, then I'm about to crash and burn if I don't chill out and listen to reason.