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Leadership Lesson Out of the Orlando Shooting
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It's been almost three weeks since the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Just this week we suffered another senseless attack against people traveling for religious holidays in Turkey.
In the days and weeks following events like these we look to our leaders – political leaders, church leaders, even leaders at work or in our family. We look for answers to questions that can't be answered. We look for explanations for actions that can't be explained. We look for comfort.
We look to leaders to help us find clarity or sort through our own emotions. These are the things that matter in moments of extreme grief, anger, and misunderstanding.
Today many of our leaders fail to do this. They politicize things. They offer "solutions" like changing policies, closing borders or attacking ISIS. They think by offering solutions that they can make the pain and uncertainty go away. They're wrong. Solutions aren't what's needed in times like these. What's needed most is understanding and connection.
Three weeks ago a man killed fifty people he knew only one thing about. And to him, that one thing was enough to justify their deaths. You can put all kinds of labels on this man. None of them can even begin to explain how someone could do what he did. He was broken. And we are not going to legislate some kind of neat solution to someone like him (or the suicide bombers in Turkey).
What we need as Americans and people are leaders who can talk about that – the human part of the problem.
Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox did that in the days after the shooting in Orlando. At a vigil for the victims of the shooting... |
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