{"id":120,"date":"2013-03-26T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T04:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregmowbray.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2013-03-26T15:03:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T04:03:36","slug":"are-you-rock-or-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/are-you-rock-or-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you rock or water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rock is hard, immovable, heavy to shift.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Water flows, adapts and seeks to level out.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rock is steadfast, solid and a great foundation.<br \/>\nWater can change radically when under certain physical conditions (eg steam and ice).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This discussion is not about whether rock or water is best. It is about asking what would you be like as a leader if you were all rock or all water?\u00a0There are times for rock-like leadership and there are times for water-like leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Standing fast on your values, making an ethical decision &#8211; rock-like. Being flexible and adaptable when challenged, and realising that you need to bend &#8211; water-like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The &#8216;all rock&#8217; leaders I know continually butt heads because they are unmoving, even when wrong.\u00a0The &#8216;all water&#8217; leaders I know are a pushover because they don&#8217;t know what they stand for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s a time for rock and a time for water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PS: I first heard about the rock and water concept at a high school. It is a program developed by Dutchman, Freerk Ykema that applies a physical\/social approach to developing young people. More info is at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/infiniticorp.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=c7baca9a4f6830b348c3243f2&amp;id=99ba6b8ec6&amp;e=71fbf26641\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/rockandwaterprogram.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock is hard, immovable, heavy to shift. Water flows, adapts and seeks to level out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[25,62,65,67,82,144,152,155,162,164],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership","tag-adapt","tag-ethical-decision","tag-flow","tag-foundation","tag-immovable","tag-rock","tag-steadfast","tag-strong","tag-values","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregmowbray.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}