Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation: Learn from All I Observe

CHAPTER 5

Point AWhere You Are

Never in our history was we willing to blame someone else for our troubles.

WILL ROGERSApril 28, 1935

It seems simple enough, but all journeys start with the first step. Often you need to know where you are and where you have been to understand where you can go. As Boy Scouts, my brothers and I conducted snipe hunts for the tenderfoot scouts as a rite of passage on their first camping trip. These young scouts were told that a snipe was a small bird about the size of a quail and that in the middle of the night, it ...