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Leadership and Care. On caring, Christian Madsbjerg (Sensemaking, 2017) writes:
“When you have a perspective – when you actually give a damn – you intuitively sense what’s important and what’s trivial. You can see what connects with what, and you know the data … that matter. Caring is the connective tissue that makes all things possible.
Conversely, a *lack* of care is often at the root of many …organisational challenges…”
Surely everyone cares.
Some care more about profit than investment, if remuneration is tied to share value. Others care more about the short over the long term, living for now. Yet others care more about the part we can control than the whole we can’t.
Yet when leaders lack a perspective on what matters most and show it, we find the deepest lack of care. In the mind of Justin Langer (coach of the Australian cricket team) “if leaders talk one thing and walk another, they’re nothing more than a common liar.”
Leaders who care go deeper than platitudes of ‘we’re all in this together’. We know care when we feel the “connective tissue that makes all things possible”. It’s visceral in the fibre of our nation. I’m feeling this now. My hope is it lasts.
We have an ANZAC opportunity to show the world what care really is.
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