And was wrong!

I spent a few days last week in lovely Vancouver.

• There to speak about leading with compassion when budgets are tight.
• Stayed in a room over looking the water.
• Enjoyed watching the ships.

Didn’t understand the orange structure.

• Why build a high-rise in the middle of the water?
• Downtown was full of tall buildings.
• But in the middle of the water?

For two days I noticed ships pulling up to the structure.

• But it never grew any taller.
• All that energy.
• No results to show for it.

Then a TV commercial decoded everything.

• I saw the orange structure on the TV.
• The commercial showed ships delivering containers for trucks to take away.
• The orange structure was a Canadian port operation - not a new high-rise.

UGH! I thought I knew what I saw - and boy was I wrong!

(The photo is blown up. Didn’t see as clearly from a distance.)

Makes me think of chapter leaders… Do you explain what’s going on in your chapter or assume your members will just get it?

Originally posted @ Cynthia D'Amour on Leadership and Life