Humans deepest held fear, according to anthropologist Don Brown, is death. We may not fear our own death, mind you. It could be the death of a child, the death of a spouse, the death of a parent or any other loved one, the death of a company, the death of a community, the death of your race, the death of your dream.
As I work and live I’ve come to realize that some deaths are worse than others. Some are too slow and we just want the pain to end. Some are too quick and we dearly wish for more time to say goodbye and possibly to make peace. Some come too young. Some come naturally. Some come by our own hand. Some come from the hand of another. Some are senseless and utterly random. Some happen in bunches, most occur, however, completely ALONE. Some are too distant and some are way too up close and personal.
There’s a reason we all fear death in some way and some fashion…
Deaths FINALITY just crashes our sense of reality. It just does.
To me, there’s a form of death with a most miserable stench. A stench that takes your breath away and makes you want to puke. This is in a category of ONE and it’s not the one you want. What form of death, you ask?
Death by betrayal.
Death by betrayal doesn’t just apply to ones that actually kill. Death by betrayal may leave it’s victim alive but hollow all the same. This death only comes to those that given another human, their most precious of gifts; the gift of TRUST.
Are you beginning to see why the leader must trust the team first?
Do you see why so many leaders maintain an arms length relationship with those they lead?
What happens to your heart when you feel you’ve been betrayed?
Can any of us really give our whole heart to another human without risking this most stench filled form of death?
Who never lets you down, whose word can you trust, who has your best interest at heart, who would die for you, who gives you their whole heart, who?
Do you see why LOVE and TRUTH are two sides of the same coin?
Tell me more, my friend.
Tell me more…
BUILT TO LEAD 