Leadership Vision
Inaugural Vision in Speech and Poetry
It is a special day. A short while ago President Obama took office. I found his inaugural address inspirational–lofty, even, without taking flights of fancy. Resolute and not rigid. I’ve posted the link to it here so you can read the speech. Hear it spoken in your mind, slowly, and with purpose. I spent the past hour poring over its ideas and phrases, its invitations and invocations in a meditation to find not only what he wanted it to mean
to you, me, us, but a meaning that taps on your, my, our collective shoulder, pulls you, me, us in close, and asks for your, my, and our contribution.
The second link is to the inauguration poem. This often gets far less attention and yet was equally grounded and soaring. I found…
