Leading Thoughts for June 5, 2025

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with:

Rosamund and Benjamin Zander on accepting reality:

“When we dislike a situation, we tend to put all our attention on how things should be rather than how they are. When our attention is primarily directed to how wrong things are, we lose our power to act effectively. We may have difficulty understanding the total context, discussing what to do next, or overlooking the people who ‘should not have done what they did’ as we think about a solution.”

Source: The Art of Possibility : Transforming Professional and Personal Life

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Joe Davis on taking the perspectives of others:

“Generous leadership is about setting yourself aside to make room for the way someone else is thinking, to make room for the way they might see the world. It’s an openness and an active setting-aside of our own experiences and beliefs to believe in another way of being, another person’s way of seeing the world. As you ask and try to understand another’s point of view, be attuned to whatever information, facts, and insight they can offer that can be added to what you do know. Then that combined knowledge will afford you a better view into the option sets and a more deeply rooted understanding of the best possible paths forward.”

Source: The Generous Leader: 7 Ways to Give of Yourself for Everyone’s Gain

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