{"id":1480,"date":"2009-09-01T22:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:06:48","slug":"sometimes-leadership-feels-like-herding-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/sometimes-leadership-feels-like-herding-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Leadership Feels Like Herding Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used this video to explain to many people the different aspects of how difficult some situations might be. It doesn&#8217;t matter which area, food, technology, leadership, project management, etc&#8230; it all feels like herding cats.<\/p>\n<p>I was trying to organize my life and the many facets. Now that I&#8217;ve taken the lead on a couple things I remembered the video. I&#8217;m just glad it&#8217;s still up. 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How much detail do you leave?<\/p>\n<p>I realized a lot of this from a True Colors workshop I attended.\u00a0 Take a look at their theory: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecolors.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.truecolors.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used this video to explain to many people the different aspects of how difficult some situations might be. It doesn&#8217;t matter which area, food, technology, leadership, project management, etc&#8230; it all feels like herding cats. I was trying to organize my life and the many facets. 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