My current theory of “how do good things ever happen in the world?” is “via someone doing things they care about, that make sense to them.” (This is a ~necessary but not sufficient condition, TBC).
I aim to set up CFAR so that: a) All of it makes sense to me, and is something I care about. Since I’m executive director. (It’s fine if the “making sense to me” and “caring about it” is on the process level, e.g. if I care about and see sense in an instructor getting to test their unit, rather than about the specific details they’re testing). b) Each person within CFAR is basically only doing things that they themselves care about, and that make sense to them.
I used to be all wiggly-feeling about leadership because I didn’t realize we could do (a) and (b) at the same time, but we totally can. I mistakenly thought that if I was leading, it meant I was asking other people to be in a weird relationship with their own perceptions of what made sense. Also, I somehow know now how to share my perceptions and my causes out loud, in a more simple and straightforward way that lets everyone else see them at once and talk about them and remember them. (Not perfect here, but better than I was.) And that makes it easier to find ways to do (a) and (b) at once.
A more articulate attempt:
My current theory of “how do good things ever happen in the world?” is “via someone doing things they care about, that make sense to them.” (This is a ~necessary but not sufficient condition, TBC).
I aim to set up CFAR so that:
a) All of it makes sense to me, and is something I care about. Since I’m executive director. (It’s fine if the “making sense to me” and “caring about it” is on the process level, e.g. if I care about and see sense in an instructor getting to test their unit, rather than about the specific details they’re testing).
b) Each person within CFAR is basically only doing things that they themselves care about, and that make sense to them.
I used to be all wiggly-feeling about leadership because I didn’t realize we could do (a) and (b) at the same time, but we totally can. I mistakenly thought that if I was leading, it meant I was asking other people to be in a weird relationship with their own perceptions of what made sense. Also, I somehow know now how to share my perceptions and my causes out loud, in a more simple and straightforward way that lets everyone else see them at once and talk about them and remember them. (Not perfect here, but better than I was.) And that makes it easier to find ways to do (a) and (b) at once.