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[virtuous-leadership-school] Q3.1 Shared Leadership

July 20, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Otis
PAX: Borg, Mountain Ice, Spellcheck, Mermaid, Baby Boomer, Otis, Boy George, Scratch-off
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: Greetings and wait on the Q to show up :pensive:, then prayer.

THE THANG: Start off by catching back up where we left off last week, Borg asked some great questions and left them as homework.
1. In leading a group, at what point do standards and criteria become hypocritical?
2. Then consider this in relation to proximity – the difference with a relationship vs absent a relationship.
We discussed at length what it meant to by hypocritical, mainly when compared to ignorance or a lack of awareness. None of us are perfect, so humility and candor are required to avoid hypocrisy.
If you have to ask yourself where the line is between okay and too far, then you are already treading in dangerous territory.

Socratic
• Why do men pool their efforts?
• Can anyone Lead together?
• Does a Leader gain anything by sharing power?

Team Development: Trust, Equipping, Accountability and Missionality

F3’s Leadership Virtues:
• Candor: graciously telling the hard Truth and demanding to hear it from
others
• Commitment: unwavering loyalty to the Group and unflinching
determination to accomplish its Mission
• Consistency: to be unchanging in nature, Standard or effect over time
• Contentment: stability of emotion engendered by the Consistent pursuit of Joy rather than Happiness
• Courage: setting aside fear to turn hardship into grace

Team Non-negotiable Elements: Trust, Shared Virtue and Mutual Competence

It is true that success has many fathers, but that failure is an orphan. By Leading from the Shield Lock, the Pro shares both with his Brothers of his SLT—for the benefit of the people who depend upon him.

Spur
• Shared Leadership is a conspiracy to Influence Movement to Advantage
• A Shared Leadership Team requires Trust, Shared Virtue and Mutual Competence
between its Members
• A Virtuous Leader is a Pro who Leads from the Shield Lock

MARY: Prayer

ANNOUNCEMENTS: It was great to see everybody and some new faces around the table! Q3.2 next week!

COT: Pretty much the whole time

[virtuous-leadership-school] Lead Right – Q3 in the QSource

July 13, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Mermaid, Otis, Spellcheck, Scratch-off, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: Stories and Prayer

THE THANG: Fruit of leadership cannot be faked – you turn a minute into a lifetime. Good or bad. Something that continues without you.
– Position power vs personal power – F3 has no position power.
– “The persuasion is the place where I flop.”
– Do the rating criteria on a team help the mission or distract from it?
– Winnowing process may look like failure – Jesus’ depleting the ranks of followers with his instructions regarding eating his flesh (communion.)
– Persuasion without understanding can have a sneaky, snake oil connotation to it.
– Exhoration is a 3 way street: The approach/relationship. The deliverer. The receiver.
– Did men step in with the focus of “We can be better than this?”
– Discussed basic civility in pictures and in public places.

HOMEWORK:
1. In leading a group, at what point do standards and criteria become hypocritical?
2. Then consider this in relation to proximity – the difference with a relationship vs absent a relationship.

COT: Prayer

[the-project-vls] VQ-3 Lead Right

July 9, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project-vls
Q: Baby Face
PAX: TombRaider, Mathlete, Borg, Nosedive
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
Had great conversations and warded off 8 legged Beasts with a good sunrise all while sharpening Iron

[the-project-vls] Virtuous leadership school

July 2, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project-vls
Q: Baby Face
PAX: Borg, Nosedive
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: walk to the pavilion and begin with coffee and prayer

THE THANG: Great conversation on Targeting I believe brought a lot of clarity of what that means in our lives.

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

[virtuous-leadership-school] Correction QSource 2.6

June 29, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Otis, Scratch-off, Baby Boomer, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: Stories and Prayer

THE THANG:
– There are some decision making skills we are going to have to have to make it through either side of correcting.
– Scripture – “Anyone who refuses correction is a fool.”
– As a “Moses”, accountability and correction are just what you do.
– As a “Leader”, you are expected to live to a higher standard, but how do you negotiate that conversation when a person being corrected uses your failures, percieved or real, as the reason they use to invalidate your valid, group correction of them.
– Either will be contagious and grow – higher standards or letting things slide.
– Correction – is a good place for
– The serenity prayer.
– Being prepared for the expected, so you can be ready for the unexpected.
– “I correct you because I love you.” Indifference is the opposite of love.
– “Don’t confuse persuasion with correction.” They don’t necessarily need to understand, sometimes they just need to stop.
– When things go off the rail, correction from a place of authority and control is easy and fast compared to the same in a place of volunteers, love and service.
– “Seems like alot of things are the “long game.”

COT: Prayer and pic.