More Daily Wisdom about Leadership
This is from https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/friday-fragments-173?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=89bbce2835-DNU_2019_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-89bbce2835-198482621&mc_cid=89bbce2835&mc_eid=ab27a3f05f
"Speaking of niche entertainment, this week I had occasion to quote Buckaroo Banzai. He was the hero of a largely forgotten '80s cult movie who was given one accidentally brilliant line: “No matter where you go, there you are.”
The context was a class in educational administration, in which I was a guest speaker. Someone asked about an inventory of leadership skills and which were the most important. I drew on Buckaroo, and maybe a little Plato, and suggested that self-awareness has to top the list. If you change jobs, you still bring yourself with you; it’s worth trying to figure out what that means. . . . .
If it’s all about you, then there’s really no "self" of which to be aware; Narcissus fell in the water because he didn’t know where he ended and the world began. Self-awareness brings with it the realization that it really isn’t all about you at all. . . . But if it’s all about you, please find something else to do.
"Speaking of niche entertainment, this week I had occasion to quote Buckaroo Banzai. He was the hero of a largely forgotten '80s cult movie who was given one accidentally brilliant line: “No matter where you go, there you are.”
The context was a class in educational administration, in which I was a guest speaker. Someone asked about an inventory of leadership skills and which were the most important. I drew on Buckaroo, and maybe a little Plato, and suggested that self-awareness has to top the list. If you change jobs, you still bring yourself with you; it’s worth trying to figure out what that means. . . . .
If it’s all about you, then there’s really no "self" of which to be aware; Narcissus fell in the water because he didn’t know where he ended and the world began. Self-awareness brings with it the realization that it really isn’t all about you at all. . . . But if it’s all about you, please find something else to do.
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