Is There Such Thing as a Neutral Leader?

Good Morning!

I hope your week was challenging, fulfilling and full of opportunities for growth!

In a good way...I hope that you "...won some and learned some..."

Life would be really boring without all of that!

For those of you who have created a "Vision Board," I hope that the images are going from paper to reality and that those things that have gained substance...are as good as you imagined!

It is so wonderful to be able to chase your dreams...it is just as wonderful to make those dreams a reality...making room for new dreams! DARE TO DREAM...and DARE TO MAKE THEM REAL!

Last Sunday night's update generated a lot of email from people who did not necessarily agree with me...COOL! This is what the updates are all about! To challenge your thinking and make something great come out of the very exercise...many people (perhaps most) are not capable of this type of challenge! I am proud of you who step up and do that!

There were comments like...


"That's a dangerous position to take...or it is just plain stupid" or...

"I have to eat, I can not afford to always do what is right...get real!" or...

"You take this stuff too seriously...It is just a job...why do you take that stuff so seriously?" or...

"Leadership is important...but it doesn't matter...they are just people!" or...

"I think that people like us should take a position of neutrality...it is the only way we can make a difference"

Interesting thoughts...

Let's start with a quote from Elie Wiesel...

"...Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented..."

WOW what an awesome statement! It drives home what people are actually doing when they say things like..."it's not my fight...or I am too busy...or they want to do something but don't..."

More than 6 million people died because people take that position...and millions of lives are ruined every year because of statements like that...

These are not statements of well-intentioned people...they are statements of the guilty!

I could not put it any better! So clear...so concise...so pure...and...so true!

I can not find a situation where that statement is not true!

A true leader...and as I think through this...ANYONE can not, in right conscious remain neutral or silent when another person is wrongly oppressed...

Think about that...what kind of person is it that sits idly by and watches an injustice...or remains silent when a few simple words would make all of the difference?

A Coward...

Selfish...

Uncaring...

Cruel...

Insincere...

As a matter of fact...neutrality is condoning the act...and it makes the neutral individual as guilty of the act as the oppressor themself.

Elie...

Thank you for clarity of thought...through the simplicity of your words...

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote...

"...The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone..."

Enough Said!

Now that we have quoted Elie Weisel and Harriett Beecher Stowe...let go with a quote from Joni Mitchell...from a song in the 1960s...actually Bob Dylan had a version of it too!


"...Don't it always seem to go...
...That you don't know what you got til it's gone..."


The fact of the matter is...

People often do not realize what they had until it is gone...

It is a type of entitlement! A VERY subtle one...

People do not appreciate smooth roads until there are potholes!

It is NEVER too late to take a stand...

It is NEVER too late right a wrong...

It is NEVER too late take a stand for the opporessed...

It is NEVER too late to be the leader that you are meant to be!

Enough Said!