People don’t always make sense. Those people, by the way, include you and me, fellow quintessential leaders, at times. It’s just a universal side effect of being human, it seems.
However, there are ways that people don’t make sense sometimes that go beyond the normal foibles we all exhibit from time to time (quintessential leaders learn what theirs are and stay alert and aware so that they can either eliminate them completely or shut them down before they get the upper hand).
It is in these ways that quintessential leaders stand out from everybody else, because these situations require an equanimity that few people have mastered and a big-picture objectivity that can easily separate facts from fiction. The fiction in these situations where people don’t make sense beyond the norm is what our own mental and emotional conditioned reactions try to convince us is true, while the reality is something quite different.
Let’s take a look at some examples in which people don’t make sense outside of the norm and then we’ll look at how we, as quintessential leaders, handle these situations. (more…)
The Quintessential Leader 