Authority - Summary of a week

wandering and wondering

Photo by Oleg Hasanov on Unsplash

I find there’s a good degree of pleasure and insight from wandering around a question's edges rather than a headlong rush to an answer. There is value in getting lost, making wrong turns and stopping to consider. I keep coming back to the idea I wrote about earlier of operating at less than our full capacity and doing more with less.

When I look back through a week rambling through the maze that is authority and trying to find one word to sum it up, that world is relationship. Authority is quite organic, always changing in quality and quantity, and dances between the authority we accept and that we impose, which in turn can be negative or positive.

Authority is something those around us sense more than we are aware of it. One of the things I notice is that those who rely on their authority to lead or manage are rarely effective, and in that respect, it is like beauty - it can be seen and appreciated but never commanded.

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