Another helpful article

Glad most of you seemed to like my previous post on the service animal article. Here's another one you might ponder.

This one's not about HOA issues like emails, meeting agendas, rule enforcement and other stuff that's usually discussed here, but on leadership. The author of this blog notes that leaders can be liked or respected, but rarely both, and so some choose one or the other. The author chooses both, and in my own sick, twisted bigoted opinion, that's a good thing for HOA board members to remember.

I've always said HOA board members are community leaders (whether they want to admit it or not) and sometimes, it's not so much about knowing your documents backward and forwards, but simply remembering to (1) set an example by being the type of neighbor you'd like to have living next door or across the street (2) say what you mean and mean what you say and (3) being consistent and fair in all things. Hence, you do end up choosing both in order to be effective.

Then again, homeowners grow up to be board members, so if EVERYONE behaved this way to start with, perhaps we might avoid some of the foolishness you read about on this website.

Here's the link - http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2017/10/leader-can-liked-respected-rarely.html Hope you enjoy it!

"In _Leadership BS_, a book published last year, Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, identifies five virtues that are almost universally praised by popular leadership writers—modesty, authenticity, truthfulness, trustworthiness, and selflessness..."

-- From https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/our-dangerous-leadership-obsession

I think the New Yorker article is an intriguing study of what "leadership" has meant to societies through history.