"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."
John Naisbitt
I saw something crossing the highway this morning. At first I thought it was a peacock with it's long tail flat on the ground, then I realized it was a mother duck with eight or nine ducklings following closely behind her in a perfectly straight line. Many cars stopped to let the feathered family walk safely across the highway; we were all united in spirit, sitting there in our vehicles hoping that the ducks would survive the crossing.
As I watched the busy little webbed feet following in their mother's footsteps I admired how perfectly behaved the ducklings were. They moved as one. I wondered if the mother duck had to have a chat with her babies before attempting the treacherous crossing, "Now dears, we're about to waddle across a very busy highway and you must stay close together in line behind me." Did she use positive reinforcement? Were the ducklings going to be treated to a snack once they reached the other side? Perhaps she had to threaten them with a time-out. Whatever she did, it obviously worked. Good little ducks.
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