Leadership - on National Poetry Day
Prof Nigel MacLennan (Doctorate in Leadership Coaching)
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Leadership
It is the lot of a leader to be
reviled for seeking to do good.
It is the lot of a leader to be
defiled for doing what no-one else would.
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It is the lot of a leader to “always be wrong.”
It is the lot of a leader to be scorned by throngs
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Most sit back and harp.
Some can only carp.
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Most see all that is wrong.
Some just play along.
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It is the lot of a leader to be viciously accused,
while most are gleefully amused.
It is the lot of a leader to try with great might,
what others gladly flee under cover of night
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If you don’t think that such things are true,
then here is my invitation to you:
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Come forth and lead; learn what it means.
Come forth and learn that it is not what it seems.
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Leadership is not the pinnacle, the palace;
leadership is more often the poisoned chalice.
Others, they think, have to do as they must,
while leaders are left to operate on trust.
Leaders, they think, live life by the lie.
Leaders, they think, have fingers in the pie.
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When you lead, who can you trust?
Everyone has their own personal thrust.
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When you lead, what can you believe,
when so many around you seek to deceive?
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When you lead, how can you keep your ego out,
when, at every chance, it wants to scream and shout?
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When you lead, how can you keep your mind clear,
of the flawed reasoning that would otherwise interfere?
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What do you sense when you see a ship?
Leaders see the culmination of a leadership trip.
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What do you think when you hear an airplane?
Leaders hear thoughts from its creator’s brain.
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Leaders observe with each new innovation,
the processes that built every new nation.
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Leadership requires great reasoning skills,
one mistake of thought, many a career, kills.
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Spend a day as a leader, and you will learn,
how leadership is not a role to yearn.
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Spend a year as a leader and you will find,
how leadership requires flexibility of mind.
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Spend a decade as a leader and you will see,
how leadership makes you, what it needs you to be.
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Copyright Nigel MacLennan 2021