CHAPTER 12Your Leadership Legacy—Writing History Today
“How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.”
—ANNIE DILLARD
AS YOU LOOK AHEAD TO THE rest of your career, I’d like to ask you to think about these questions: How will those days add up? What will these years in leadership mean? What in the end, will my legacy be?
Interestingly, when I posed these questions to leaders in this book, their answers about legacy came easily. They had thought about the purpose; they were clear about the importance of their work; they had thought about the difference they want to make. This direction and sense of purpose gives meaning to their everyday activities. Each time I asked this question of the leaders I interviewed, they were able to ...
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