{"id":5348,"date":"2016-09-06T02:34:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2016-09-06T02:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:34:36","slug":"leadership-traits-for-working-in-diverse-contexts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/leadership-traits-for-working-in-diverse-contexts\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership traits for working in diverse contexts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vu Le pays tribute today to his friend Bob Santos who was a leader in Seattle in the field of non-profit leadership and social change. To do so he listed nine key traits for leaders working in diversity, and <a href=\"http:\/\/nonprofitwithballs.com\/2016\/09\/9-traits-of-the-kind-of-leaders-we-need-in-this-time-and-place\/\">the whole post is like an index to a life long curriculum on managing diverse teams in diverse contexts.<\/a> \u00a0Leaders, especially those with traditional privilege in the non-profit sector, would do well to see these as basics rules to guide their leadership:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>See the strength in uncertainty<\/li>\n<li>Consider differing viewpoints<\/li>\n<li>Understand that everyone is affected by unjust systems<\/li>\n<li>Remember that we are all tied to one another and there are no &#8220;others.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Paradoxically ground work in their own story while removing themselves from the work.<\/li>\n<li>Believe that diversity is our strength<\/li>\n<li>Play the game while the change the game<\/li>\n<li>Unite and bring out the best in people.<\/li>\n<li>Have a relentless optimism for an ideal world, grounded in reality.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These are pretty good complexity principles too, with a caveat that the last one requires us to have a motivating drive for a better world rather than an ideological goal and pathway in mind. It&#8217;s a lovely tribute to Bob Santos and a very handy list to reflect on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vu Le pays tribute today to his friend Bob Santos who was a leader in Seattle in the field of non-profit leadership and social change. To do so he listed nine key traits for leaders working in diversity, and the whole post is like an index to a life long curriculum on managing diverse teams in diverse contexts. \u00a0Leaders, especially those with traditional privilege in the non-profit sector, would do well to see these as basics rules to guide their leadership: See the strength in uncertainty Consider differing viewpoints Understand that everyone is affected by unjust systems Remember that we &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Flowers.jpg?fit=650%2C488&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-1og","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}