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Brian Watts CIC Founder

We are all leaders in this world…or at least we all could be if we choose to be.  How different the world would be if we all chose to be leaders and lived our lives accordingly!

And the world is in desperate need of great leaders.  So many of what I will call the “old regime” leaders have led with a command-and-control leadership style – a super hero of sorts who knew (or so he/she thought) what was best for all concerned and led accordingly.  How well is this style of leadership working for us now?  I suggest not so well.  The world has become too complex for any one person to successfully lead from this place.

Connected in Community is a unique place where you can:

• Connect with other leaders who are also focused on making a difference in the world;
• Get inspired and awaken to a new vision of meaningful community leadership;
• Support others in, and be supported by, this community to help all of us turn our visions into reality; and
• Celebrate the fantastic contributions that other leaders are making in the world.

What we need in the 21st century are leaders with a more enlightened mindset.  Leaders who understand the dynamics of living systems.  Leaders who recognize that every member of a system has important and unique gifts to contribute to the system’s success and which is in fact dependent on those diverse gifts being delivered.  Leaders who can support each member of the system with the space and responsibility to deliver their contribution will have the greatest impact.  And through doing so, each member of the system will more likely find purpose and meaning by knowing that their contribution really mattered.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

In our time, a leader’s most important responsibility is to connect others together in order to find real solutions to the challenges we collectively face.  To really connect…to not only hear others’ perspectives, but to seek to understand them (although not necessarily agreeing)…to develop genuine respect for those we are in community with, knowing that in some way, they each hold an important piece of our needed solutions…to see each other as a gift to be cherished.

What are you doing to nurture the communities that you belong to?  What gift might be possible for you, and only you, to deliver to those communities if you dared to really consider it?  And who’s making a real difference out there and what can we learn from them?

I urge you to take more active leadership in your communities and also actively engage in this online community.  We all need YOU.  Share your wisdom and insights with us, and we will do the same with you.  Together, we will make our communities and the world a much better place.

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