I’m enjoying this book so much I don’t have words. Another excerpt from Edwin Friedman’s A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix:
“The effect on leaders of this widespread demand for a quick fix is that it turns them from professionals into hacks. For as long as leaders cater to the demand that they fix things quickly rather than encourage, promote, or even force their clients to deal with their own emotional being, then these leaders – be they parents or presidents – also miss out on challenging opportunities to grow. The difference between a professional and a hack is not in their degree of training. Both may do what they do with polish; but the hack is not transformed by his experience.”
This is the kind of book I just want to breath in. If I could, I’m pretty sure it would make me high. Lovin’ this book and the cutting edge Jewish Rabbi that wrote it.
