Find a place to say what you want
I thought that I couldn’t write about leadership because I’m not in a leadership position anymore. But people still ask me things. I still notice things and I’m still interested in how leaders can affect organisations to create lasting positive change.
I realised I can write about what I want.
So can you.
Yesterday I attended the book launch for The Good Immigrant. It’s the kind of book that mainstream publishers may have shied away from because it tackles issues of immigration and race. So the people involved decided that they’d write it anyway and crowd fund it. They found people who would support them and were interested in what they were saying and then made it happen.
My takeaway this week? If you don’t like the conversation being had then change it. If you feel you can’t change it where you are. Find somewhere that you can.
It may be in a different room.
It may be in a different building.
Perhaps it’s with different people.
But there will be a place for it.
Change the conversation. Or start a new one.
6 Comments
nancy
23rd September 2016 at 7:54 pm?
ieshasmall
26th March 2017 at 11:05 amahahah. I’m glad you have a place to say what you want and I’ve been looking at some of you TES column this week on something I’m doing for work. Kept up.
edifiedlistener
24th September 2016 at 9:41 pmBrilliantly succinct and genuinely uplifting. Thank you!
ieshasmall
26th March 2017 at 11:02 amI feel free! I want others to as well.
MRW
24th September 2016 at 10:45 pmOh, I soooo needed this. Wow…thank you for writing this.
ieshasmall
26th March 2017 at 11:02 amGlad you found it useful.