Said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader in response to Barack Obama’s offers of a ‘fresh start’  to relations between the US and Iran.  He says, “We haven’t seen any change.”  Obama’s campaign slogan was “Change We Can Believe In.”   I guess that now is the time to demonstrate why others should believe in him .  Is this a time for Gandhi’s  famous “Be the change you want to see”?

Talk is cheap.  Now is the time for a real leader to behave differently.

This little impasse is not restricted to the political sphere.  I often hear staff make similar observations about their bosses.  Do you have the courage and vision to show people how you want them to respond now?  I’d love some real life examples if you have any…

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.”  Francis Bacon

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”  Albert Einstein

Resources: 

• Guardian story