slow learning

I like consensus leadership. I like sitting with peers and 'talkin' shop' and finding things we agree on and doing them together.

But I keep discovering that my style there is often not the best leadership. Its often better, I am learning, to lay out a well ordered plan, and then ask for people to contribute, rather than discussing the entire thing together from the very start.

God help me have the courage to develop and lay out the plan, the humility to let people then tear it apart until it fits them, and the wisdom to know what to give away and what to keep.