Leave
Jim Stroup has a fine new post up at Managing Leadership. Here is what I draw from it:
Learn when to leave.
It is a fact of life that we will be judged by our associations. We will lend credibility without even realizing it, we will demonstrate support without ever saying a word, and we can perpetuate precisely the wrong thing by our presence. So sometimes our absence is required to speak loudly.
Ben and I were discussing this issue just the other day. It was related to being in the wrong place (he wasn't, by the way) and how to remedy that problem. My advice was to muster up all the courage you have and simply leave. Be absent. Go away. Be somewhere else. Set your own course. Learn when to leave. It is a powerful statement.
Learn when to leave.
It is a fact of life that we will be judged by our associations. We will lend credibility without even realizing it, we will demonstrate support without ever saying a word, and we can perpetuate precisely the wrong thing by our presence. So sometimes our absence is required to speak loudly.
Ben and I were discussing this issue just the other day. It was related to being in the wrong place (he wasn't, by the way) and how to remedy that problem. My advice was to muster up all the courage you have and simply leave. Be absent. Go away. Be somewhere else. Set your own course. Learn when to leave. It is a powerful statement.
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