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October,
2007 Welcome
to Leadership Hand™, a monthly e-newsletter To ensure receipt, please white-list our address by adding "Info@" plus our domain name to your e-mail address book. 1. Slack Tide and Transitions: The Space In-Between Are you considering a significant transition? Something that would re-orient you in the world? Like selling the business you founded, the one you poured heart and soul into; shifting your focus from your now raised children to you; or taking steps toward even more meaningful work. Oh, that future beckons sweetly from here! But once you've taken solid steps toward that new future, once you've set things in motion, there will be a time where you find yourself "in-between" the old and the new.
There is a third possibility: resting in the knowledge that this is part of the transition and indeed, you are underway. In this third way, the rhythm is different. There is time to look around, float gently, aware of the place from which you've come, and perhaps seeing into the distance--maybe it's more of an internal knowing--the place where you are heading. Many times when I was younger, for example, I could reach the nearest channel marker in the sound with steady easy strokes at slack tide. Whether your "in-between" is a half-year, possibly a year or more in some cases, there's the calming knowledge that a current will catch you and you'll be on your way. Don't hesitate
to start that re-orienting process… Do be mindful, however,
of the "in-between" and know that it has a different rhythm.
One as natural as the rise and fall of the tides. One to be enjoyed
as part of the process and before the new catches hold. Beth Hand © Copyright 2007, Beth Hand. Beth Hand, MBA helps leaders increase their effectiveness and satisfaction, now and for the future. She can be reached at (+1) 703.820.8074 or via her website www.leadershiphand.com. 2. Reprint Permission This is a copyrighted publication. You are welcome to reprint an issue on a non-exclusive basis provided you:
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Just
like slack tide. Slack tide occurs after low tide, and again after
high tide. Water isn't flowing out to sea or flowing inland. During
a significant transition, when you are "in between"--in
the slack tide of your own transition--you might flail busily to
make headway faster. Or you might feel that you are sinking, succumbing
to doubt or depression without the more familiar fast movement and
clear direction of your previous, known course. I've done both and
neither strategy is particularly effective, nor is it enjoyable.
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