Sarah Hey: Strategery 101: Surveying the Landscape -- The Achilles Heel of Leadership
Passing the buck on leadership and other sometime delights of Roistering Episcopal Adventurers

Today is the last day that we will "survey the landscape" . . . In following days we will move away from theory and dive into "practice", examining precisely what activities we can take as laypeople and clergy within the Episcopal church. Although the upcoming weeks of practical action-steps will be the focus of this series, we will also have occasional "rabbit trail" essays that offer a few more broader principles and theories, as they come up in conversations.

I'll begin with a little personal experience. Back in late August of 2003, I was engaging in dialogue . . . [oops, sorry about that, just a little slip there] . . . I was commiserating and engaging in mutual ranting with a friend by phone about the situation within the Episcopal church. Both of us were rapidly being tranformed from "Beloved Moderates" to "More Informed and More Depressed" Episcopalians.

We made a lot of bold pronouncements and promises. Yes sir, whatever our fearless leaders wanted us to do, we were going to do it.

We were going to sign right up on whatever volunteer sheet was circulating around and report for duty. We would be willing to work very hard -- turn all of the many talents and abundant energy that we had formerly used in other volunteer areas -- towards whatever it was that our leaders wanted.

Yes sir. the rest-Excellent!