What you focus on, Grows
The word lead originates from the Anglo-Saxon word "laed" which means to "show the way". The essence of leadership therefore means to be a pathfinder - a person who shows the way to others, stepping away from current thinking of leaders as "influence" towards a more bold stance of positive impact.
A pathfinder is a mastermind, conceiver, originator - someone who creates new things - someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.
In our history these were the people who opened up new value in society, be it in innovative new forms of art, thinking or business models. Coco Chanel and Grace Hopper are examples of pathfinders. MaRi Eagar
"Success if often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." - Coco Chanel
Is this a book? Is this a workbook? Is this a learning program? Is this a conversation?
All of the above and more.
Engaging with the concepts and activities while working through this personal leadership fieldguide will, without doubt, be experienced as a time of personal growth and social impact.
Practicing with peers and friends will make it even more rewarding.
"Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Within this context, freedom means:
- To run the program
- To study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs
- To redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
- To improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits." Richard Stallman
The sequence of the concepts as well as experiential activities in this book and program are intended to provide you with the opportunity to deepen your self-knowledge while cultivating personal transformation skills through technologies of self.
The sequence is based on more than 30 years of research in effective leadership development traditions around the world. However it is also designed to enable you to tap into any section and explore in your own way.
The book is intentionally designed as a companion guide that you can refer to on a private level. It is also effective as an interactive and social learning pathway for communities that could be completed over a few weeks or a few months.
This program will help provide insight, tools and methods for dealing with some frequent questions people ask, such as:
- Can I experience happiness and joy at work and at play? (Or must I give one up for the other)
- How can I foster strong and quality personal relationships and also make sure I achieve my own goals?
- What does "my best and true self" mean, and how will I know that I am there?
- Who am I and what action do I take when areas in my life don't go as expected?
- What will happen if I am not successful? How will I bounce back?
- What is a journey of leadership discovery really all about?
Tips to make this an opportunity for the expression of your creative self and create your own form of experiential learning
You can download this workbook and use it to design your own personal journal. Add multi-media, create an art theme for yourself and see how much fun you can make it.
Imagine some future world where your future self comes back from the future to read and study your work - searching for important information about who you are, where you came from and where you are going.
How will you communicate so that your future self gain wisdom? You might even be inspired to start contributing to the development of this book on GitBook by posting your "aha" and art to grow our understanding of this rapidly evolving world.
Maybe you decide to buy an empty diary. Write and doodle using different colours. Glue your napkin writing in there.
As this book is designed to encourage first-hand, or a hands-on experience of the relevant knowledge behind the content, we encourage you to read and research references.
There is lots of opportunity for personal reflections and self-expression as this book is also your personal leadership coach to greatly enhance your growth.
The intention is also to inspire confidence in your ability to share it and coach other people as you become confident in scaling and reteaching the tools and models to your networks.
Practicing with a Crypto and Blockhain Generation Personal Leadership Development Group will enhance your leadership facilitation skills while you become more accountable and also learn from others who are on the same quest.
Another tip is to start having real conversations on the topics of personal leadership with crypto and blockchain leaders and influencers who have been in the industry for a while. They will be able to provide valuable insights into their own journey to be role models and pathfinders.
This program is also designed to compliment and augment other development and leadership program that are important to you
The reason this book is loaded on GitBook is a personal commitment that I made to Chelsea Palmer to contribute to software development. My personal vision is for this book to become a "Leadership, Ethics and Governance Development MasterNode" where crypto and blockchain leaders establish have conversations and contribute to the development of standards, good practices and principles for sustainable growth of distributed leadership and organizational development models enabled by crypto and blockchain technologies.
Confidentiality and Privacy
The content you generate from this workbook is private and for your personal use only unless you specifically grant permission to others to see or use it. The field guide is also not designed nor should it be used for any competency or performance assessment (we have created specific tools and guides for that.)
Disclaimer
The content, tools and development practices offered here is meant solely to enhance the quality of life and is not meant to be a substitute for or supplant for psychotherapy or any other means of psychological or medical treatment. Always consult your medical physician before embarking on a fitness and wellness program.
This Book and Program is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence: Attribution-NoonCommercial-ShareAlike.