Culture Is Not Only a Nation-to-Nation Thing
The Trunk of the Tree
I once asked a group of young potentials to produce their image of a perfect leader. The vision they conceived was of a tree. It was not the first time that I had heard leadership (or other abstract constructs, for that matter) described using the metaphor of a tree (Figure 11.1). But, it was the first time that I had seen it expressed in quite this way. The group posited one’s kitchen table values (see Chapter 2) as the roots on which any healthy leader-tree feeds, in order to grow and the leaves, branches, blossom, and fruits represented the output or tangible or perceivable leadership style. Nice. I got the analogy, but, in all honesty, it had not ...
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