Dreams, Ambitions, and Fruition

There is an adage in business that in order to succeed, one must improve an existing product or service by ten percent instead of inventing something entiirely new. This has worked for me in building grassroots movements, as people change in small increments, not giant leaps. The grassroots movements which I have been successful building were based on refocusing existing groups toward a new purpose.

Many existing groups have never actually defined the mission for which they exist. Others have not continued to evaluate the mission for which they came together as times changed and people aged or left the group. Shortly after becoming a member in these groups, I've been asked to hold board positions. I often accept leadership only with a new mission statement being accepted as a condition of my leadership.

It has been interesting to me to see how few people are willing to take a stand when accepting leadership positions; too many simply act as puppets for the power sources inside the old guard. This is not productive, in the long run, and groups stagnate.

The great male leaders in history had clear visions of where they were going and what people they needed on their leadership teams. They do not spend energy on the petty jealousies and bickering about popularity that so infects many groups of women. They and their team lead and simply expect that they will be followed.

I have learned leadership by watching the best practices of the males in history.