{"id":22921,"date":"2019-07-29T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=22921"},"modified":"2019-07-29T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T00:20:09","slug":"monday-morning-moment-leadership-criticism-and-the-man-or-woman-in-the-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=22921","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Moment – Leadership, Criticism, and the Man (or Woman) in the Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday’s are exceptional days of the week. You may enter it with one focus or resolve and then discover a golden nugget that takes you a very different direction. It happened to me this morning.<\/p>\n

My temptation was to vent frustration over a situation where leadership leans toward being restrictive, exclusive, and narrow in focus. Aren’t you glad I am not writing about that today?!<\/p>\n

[I’ve written previously about negativity and how to turn it around – here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>. No matter how consequential the issue, criticism won’t get us where we want to go.]<\/p>\n

As I pondered how to address the topic in a positive, redemptive way, I came across a wise friend’s Facebook post that pointed me to an edited video of a talk given by author and vulnerability researcher Bren\u00e9 Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n