the rats and squirrels of leadership

part 4 of a three part series on roadkill

I thought this was going to be a three part series.

It was.

That was my intention.

Then?

I saw how well ya’ll have been responding.

As such, I made it two thirds of the way across the road.

Like the pragmatic squirrel, I changed direction.

Leaders, parents, politicians?

The all get criticized for flip flopping.

They take a lot of heat for changing direction.

Or?

They get eviscerated for not making change happen quickly enough.

This is mostly done by the rats or squirrels who haven’t crossed the road.

They’ve played in the ditches perhaps.

They’ve climbed trees.

But?

These folks haven’t seen traffic.

Not from the perspective of being underneath a moving car.

These folks, without the ability to pause, to alter course, to behave in ways that seem erratic?

These folks simply don’t know what they don’t know.

They may have seen the road.

They may have seen others cross.

Have they done it themselves?

Not so much.

Once we get into a new role, the field of experience changes.

Our limits, if we’re lucky, become more cl…