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Drawing wisdom from experience

Drawing wisdom from experience Viewpoint Drawing wisdom from experience Anna Bianchi Freelance Editor’s note In Peter Gilbert’s book, Leadership – Being effective and remaining human (2005), he quotes the Himalayan climber Jim Whitaker as saying ‘You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can’t be conquered; you conquer yourself, your hopes, your fears’. I was reminded of this when I read this beautiful piece of writing from Anna Bianchi. I have had the privilege of working alongside Anna and know her to be an inspiring example of someone who leads others by leading herself – guided by a deep spirituality and self-knowledge born of regularly taking herself (to use her own words) to ‘the edge’. We offer it here as an example of how effective leaders draw wisdom from experience. ‘Whenever I see a mountain, it stares at me. fertile valley floor to the saddle of the pass. And for three months I was in the Himalayas so Our Ladakhi acquaintances had flung their my sense of being scrutinised is deep. Wherever arms nonchantly in the direction of the peaks I went in Ladakh, by bus or foot, the mountains informing us that the Monastry was ‘over watched me, it’s as though they had some http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Leadership in Public Services Emerald Publishing

Drawing wisdom from experience

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Viewpoint Drawing wisdom from experience Anna Bianchi Freelance Editor’s note In Peter Gilbert’s book, Leadership – Being effective and remaining human (2005), he quotes the Himalayan climber Jim Whitaker as saying ‘You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can’t be conquered; you conquer yourself, your hopes, your fears’. I was reminded of this when I read this beautiful piece of writing from Anna Bianchi. I have had the privilege of working alongside Anna and know her to be an inspiring example of someone who leads others by leading herself – guided by a deep spirituality and self-knowledge born of regularly taking herself (to use her own words) to ‘the edge’. We offer it here as an example of how effective leaders draw wisdom from experience. ‘Whenever I see a mountain, it stares at me. fertile valley floor to the saddle of the pass. And for three months I was in the Himalayas so Our Ladakhi acquaintances had flung their my sense of being scrutinised is deep. Wherever arms nonchantly in the direction of the peaks I went in Ladakh, by bus or foot, the mountains informing us that the Monastry was ‘over watched me, it’s as though they had some

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The International Journal of Leadership in Public Services – Emerald Publishing

Published: Sep 13, 2010

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