{"id":5715,"date":"2024-03-07T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2024-03-03T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:04:56","slug":"avoid-appearing-to-act-like-a-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5715","title":{"rendered":"AVOID APPEARING TO ACT LIKE A BOSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Advice to Father Dassy, Superior of a large Oblate community:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>You must make it easy for everyone to carry out their duties, avoid appearing to act like a boss and therefore willingly consult those who have been chosen to be your advisers; you must not fail to do this, especially at the times laid down in the Rule, so that you can never be accused of doing things or letting them go according to your whim.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Toussaint Dassy in Nancy, France, 7 March 1848, EO X n 970<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>The task of a leader is to facilitate the achieving of whatever the group stands for. Consultation and listening form an essential part of the picture.<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.&#8221; (Theodore Roosevelt)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice to Father Dassy, Superior of a large Oblate community: You must make it easy for everyone to carry out their duties, avoid appearing to act like a boss and therefore willingly consult those who have been chosen to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}