Leadership Ladder

  I like slow growth and I love rapid growth. Most growth is slow, but surges can make a real difference in momentum and motivation. If I want growth, my instincts tell me to work harder, work more, and work smarter. Experience teaches me that busy work achieves few results, but it also takes little thinking, or planning. I have come to believe that both increased effort and intelligent direction of that effort are vital to increased results. "Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers." - attributed to Augustus Hare and to Lord Byron There is a slow rise and a rapid rise. To these we must add, there may be no rise. Fluff floats and then gloats in its meteoric success, but may not sustain under stress and testing. Fame can make its name through crisis, accident, or blame when opportunities are seized. But it is the long haul, the consistent call, the persistent hope and labor languishing in the heat o...