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If you’re like me, you’ve learned that we are “still learning” to be leaders. This means that we make mistakes and we seek correction. We recognize the delicate balance between sustaining and changing operations through corrections, whether welcome or daunting. In any event, correction means change and change takes time. We may think of time as a measure, a constant, a variable, even a dimension. How we negotiate our daily (or yearly) schedules reveals how we think about time, value it, and use it.How we use time, like our leadership, is never perfect. And that’s okay because we are “still learning.” Through our continual efforts to do our best, we may embrace the wisdom of our 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge: “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.” We make decision after decision that insistently leads us and others into challenges and accomplishments, and yes, into more decisions! Our thinking about time and acting through its gates enables us to lead with intelligence and confidence.
Time’s gate
Timing our decisions and actions is under our control entirely. In whatever way we exercise this control, when we make a decision or take action to involve ourselves ...