Dy­nam­ics of Lead­er­ship

Dear Editor:

 Cur­rent­ly, the place that we live and call home has de­te­ri­o­rat­ed in to a state of chaos bor­der­ing on an­ar­chy. Our sense of right and wrong has been com­pro­mised . Many con­sid­er liv­ing with moral rel­a­tivism

as nor­mal.

 Ac­knowl­edg­ing the fact that the core of our peo­ple are well in­tend­ed and fairmind­ed, how did we get here? This down hill slide does not hap­pen over night. It required years of in­con­sis­ten­cy and a lack of trans­parency.

 For­tu­nate­ly there is a clear path back to an at­mosphere of rel­a­tive har­mo­ny and pros­per­i­ty. The pro­longed re­turn to this state is cen­tered on qual­i­ty lead­er­ship.

 “Lead­er­ship,” it has all but de­volved into a place of a neb­u­lous catch phrase mistak­en for some of those in charge.

 Leader can be iden­ti­fied by traits and ac­tions.

 The abil­i­ty to un­der­stand his­to­ry, cou­pled with the ob­ser­va­tion of the cur­rent expe­ri­ences, give one a base from which to draw.

It is im­per­a­tive to an­a­lyze with an open mind when view­ing the big pic­ture.

 Mov­ing to­ward the, “so­lu­tion,” con­sul­tive skills and plan mak­ing are key.

 The means for set­ting the process in mo­tion is com­mu­ni­ca­tion, the ex­change of ideas and in­for­ma­tion.

 Fo­cus on ex­change. The fa­cil­i­ta­tors of this are truth and trans­parency. With­out the last two, the mod­el col­laps­es.

 Pick a path. Take a stand. No whin­ers.

Michael Szura

Weiser, Idaho