{"id":2732,"date":"2010-01-08T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2010-01-08T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T10:57:09","slug":"repost-thanks-for-leading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/repost-thanks-for-leading\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: Thanks for leading"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Leadership\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leadership\">Leadership<\/a> is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.<br \/>\nThe <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scarcity\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scarcity\">scarcity<\/a> makes leadership valuable. If everyone tries to lead all the time, not much happens. It\u2019s discomfort that creates the leverage that makes leadership worthwhile.<br \/>\nIn other words, if everyone could do it, they would, and it wouldn\u2019t be worth much.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s uncomfortable to challenge the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Status quo\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Status_quo\">status quo<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.<br \/>\nWhen you identify the discomfort, you\u2019ve found the place where a leader is needed.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it\u2019s almost certain you\u2019re not reaching your potential as a leader.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2009\/08\/thanks-for-leading.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28Seth%27s+Blog%29\">Seth&#8217;s Blog: Thanks for leading<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/9ab99cbf-06b7-40d9-8f6a-56d8d1166ea8\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. The scarcity makes leadership valuable. If everyone tries to lead all the time, not much happens. It\u2019s discomfort that creates the leverage that makes leadership worthwhile. In other words, if everyone could do it, they would, and it wouldn\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/repost-thanks-for-leading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:: Thanks for leading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[276,478,526,818,873,1267,1272,1337],"class_list":["post-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","tag-business","tag-education-and-training","tag-executive","tag-leadership","tag-management","tag-seminars-and-workshops","tag-seth-godin","tag-status-quo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}