{"id":46287,"date":"2018-06-22T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/?p=46283"},"modified":"2018-06-22T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:29:00","slug":"leadership-is-a-lot-like-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/inspirational\/leadership-is-a-lot-like-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership is a lot like gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"\nLeadership is a lot like gardening. Provide a little water, some sunshine, some protection from toxic elements,<br>\na lot of nurturing and most important of all, never step on the flowers.<br>\nJoe Fox\n<p>Reflection: That concept actually came to me back in the mid 90s when I was the commanding officer of the 71 Precinct in Crown Heights. Being a C.O. can actually be quite parental. It is very inspiring to watch a couple of hundred young men and women work to make their corner of the world a better place. I went into my assignment expecting that I would have to &#8220;run things&#8221; and make sure everything got done. Well I quickly realized that to a great extent, in spite of who the commanding officer is, cops want to do what&#8217;s right. I quickly came to realize that I would be more effective being more of a coach than a boss. I have learned that we can be more impactful sometimes stepping back a bit, promoting &#8211; or rather allowing the growth of others. Of course we need to step up, and step in when necessary but we serve our teams &#8211; and ourselves well when our intuition helps us know the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful day everyone. And enjoy the gardens. (I went back to some of my visits to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden&#8217;s for these photos. This posting this morning reminds me I have to get back there soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership is a lot like gardening. Provide a little water, some sunshine, some protection from toxic elements, a lot of nurturing and most important of all, never step on the flowers. Joe Fox Reflection: That concept actually came to me back in the mid 90s when I was the commanding officer of the 71 Precinct&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}