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ClimateNE & Climate Change Schools Project support the move to a low-carbon, resilient economy and help businesses avoid risk and realise commercial opportunities. Posts by Jen Atkinson, Krista McKinzey and Harriet Thew » There is a long running method of giving mainly European money to communities called Leader indeed I have been involved with Leader I, Leader II, Leader + and the leader approach.Given they last over 5 years each I'm getting older.
Talking about my mid-life crisis I was interviewed in London for the second series of Alan Sugar's The Apprentice a few years ago and I am glad to say I failed to get short-listed - it is as close as you get to a certificate of sanity!!
Leadership in companies and communities is crucial and here in the north east of England you can argue we need even more effective leadership as the past has been dominated by top down forces...indeed a place where things happened too you rather than you being able to make things happen. But enough of the century before last...this is the 21st century - is it not?
On Friday night I was at a film premiere to celebrate very effective leadership in the coastal village of Alnmouth in Northumberland, namely the Womens Institute for the past 90 years...ironically a message from the local MP was supplemented by one from the previous incumbent of No 10, a certain Anthony Blair! It appears he still perhaps has a certain respect for them! At the end of Bob Whittaker's film there was rapid clapping......not a dry eye in the house and an apperciation of what the fairer sex can achieve singly and collectively. Now that is effective leadership!
The sermon this morning in my church was about doubting Thomas, this is the flip side to leadership and we have to clamp down on those who talk the vision away. I think in a rural community in particular it becomes easy to blend in and not rock the boat..bad idea...terrible. Let us work like the WI, determined and with a sense of companionship.
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