Comments on: How to help yourself.

By: How to extend a helping hand.

How to extend a helping hand. — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:42:03 +0000

[...] any new undertaking, figuring out how to help yourself and getting proficient at it takes time. Living in the information age it is easy to sit down [...]

By: Mick Morris

Mick Morris — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:46:13 +0000

Thanks for the mention at your site Karen.

By: Friday’s Links — A Meaningful Existence

Friday’s Links — A Meaningful Existence — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:28:21 +0000

[...] enjoyed reading Mick’s story about How to Help Yourself at his site The Mick Morris Musing and I think you will, too. Check it out and let me know if [...]

By: Mars Dorian

Mars Dorian — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:01:04 +0000

Hey Mick,

I’ve come up with my personal believe of leadership:

being as delusional as possible and using that mindset to inspire/help the people that want to listen, dare I say illuminate the world with your existence…

By: Mick Morris

Mick Morris — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:18:11 +0000

Hi Mandy, thanks for the generous comment. You obviously did a great coaching job to move someone from control tower to servant leadership. I’m sure that executive is much happier for the experience.

By: Mick Morris

Mick Morris — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:17:06 +0000

Karen, glad to have helped you out with something new for you.

By: Mandy Lehto

Mandy Lehto — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:04:31 +0000

Mick, this is an excellent post – thanks! It’s so easy to forget that our leadership styles might either nourish or deplete others. Your point about others looking to us for clues regarding how to behave is spot on. It can even be a toddler, copying some habit or saying you have! Whatever situations we lead in, we have choices as to HOW we adopt and carry out that role. I was recently coaching a senior executive who’s objective was to get back into the ‘control tower’. By the end of our work together, the objective had morphed to a servant relationship. It was an amazing and inspiring journey. Thanks again for the inspiring piece.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:00:52 +0000

Wow, this article really made me stop and think. Like Paul said, very thought-provoking.

It makes you aware of your actions and that we, as bloggers, are defacto leaders for our readers. I never thought about it that way, so this was something new. Also, the concept of the servant leadership is a new concept to me. Thanks for teaching me something new today.

Karen

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:42:33 +0000

Yep, don’t worry I hadn’t missed the point of the post lol. Just happens to be the first thing I think of when thinking ‘benevolent dictator’.

I think that even in terms of servant leadership you still have to lead – just your motivations for doing so are different.

By: Mick Morris

Mick Morris — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:39:13 +0000

Heather, you’re welcome

One of the points of the post is that leaders lead (whether they have formal leadership positions, or they lead because of the examples they set in smaller settings).

Rulers rule from a position of power, they do not neccessarily “lead” particularly not in the sense of servant leadership…a very important distinction.