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Welcome to our newsletter - The DNA of Leadership.
Every month, we will be bringing you new ideas to think about, new
practices to experiment with, and new thoughts on topics such as changing organizational culture, creative team development and leadership assessment and development to inspire you.
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Observations
Most of us have grown up reading about historical turning points. This year, on November 4th, 2008 we experienced one together - not just our nation - the whole world.
As the world watched, we elected the first black President of the United States. Barack Hussein Obama represents a new way of being and a new way of thinking in the world.
 During the first debate, some people criticized Barack for 'not being tough enough' and 'not fighting back.' His response was, 'this is my way - this is who I am.'
Barack has ushered in awareness that enables us to see the 'Fear - Hope' continuum in the words we speak with each other, in the conversations that connect us, and in the actions we choose to take.
We need teachers and sages in politics, not just politicians. Barack has given us light to be clearer on our choices, and to understand when we are choosing hope and accountability over fear, and why we are choosing hope. Barack is teaching us to be leaders, not followers.
During the election, each of us was asked to soul search. To dig inside and see what we each wanted to stand for. We had a chance to hold up a mirror and decide. And the world did.
 Never before have we had such a voting-turnout. Never before have we had so many young and old people standing in line side-by-side to vote. Never before have we had such spirited debates and such lifting of consciousness about what it really takes to live in a WE-Centric world.
And now the healing begins. Democrats and Republicans are coming together to address one of this century's most threatening economic crisis; a crisis that not only touches our land, but reaches around the globe. We are all in this together whether we like it or not.
 WE -as a global community - must find new ways to talk with each other; new ways of embracing our differences; new ways of having conversations. Now is the time to face each other in peace and unity - now is the time to seek new ways of framing our challenges to invite our best thinking to emerge. Now is the time for WE, now is the time for Change.
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WE think we're communicating, we are not.
WE use words that are familiar without the same meanings.
WE drive each other down into the dumps on not delivering.
WE didn't even agree on what to deliver.
WE think others are foes before they are friends.
WE fight for what we want rather than ask for it.
WE find others wrong before they are right.
WE play to win not to include.
WE harbor bad feelings till we burst.
WE confront disappointments late.
WE seek to blame before we seek to take initiative.
WE hide behind our fears and hold onto them too long...
WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS...
WHAT IF we had a real choice to make...
To give each other a chance to learn, grow and nourish.
To listen from the heart first before the head.
To ask when we don't understand, then listen until we get what others really mean.
To make winning the outgrowth of doing great things together with others.
WHAT IF we made the VITAL choice today...
To honor how far we've come and stay focused on the journey ahead.
To understand that without others we'll never get there.
To realize that we create the future and then step into it.
To take the time to author the future WE want to create together.
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