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3 POSTURES OF LEADERSHIP FROM AN ADOPTIVE DAD - EUGENE PETROV
D
o you want to learn
is also an intensely laborious
call them the three postures
leadership lessons? Be
mission. These kids have needs
of leadership. I believe they
a parent.
on multiple levels – physical,
are applicable to leaders in
Do you want to learn those
emotional, psychological, and
any area -whether you are a
lessons in overdrive? Be a
intellectual. The day to day
homemaker, a small business
foster and adoptive parent.
work of teaching them valuable
owner, a government worker,
Do you want to learn those
and fundamental life lessons-
or at the top of the corporate
lessons at warp speed? Foster
like kindness respect, and
environment. Leadership is
and then adopt 5½-year-old
self-control- takes its toll on
vitally important everywhere.
triplets.
the body, mind, soul, and spirit.
I hope you benefit immensely
I have experienced exhaustion
from these three postures. But
No problem, right? I’m joking of
like no other. Yet, it is in this
remember, leadership is about
course.
parenting journey that I have
more than reading. It is about
also experienced the most
doing. Leadership is an action.
However, my personal
joyful moments like my now
It is crucial, first of all, to
leadership journey accelerated
8-year-old daughter standing
properly define posture.
exponentially when my wife
up to bullies on the playground.
and I accepted triplets (two
My buddy Bruce Van Horn
The precision of language has
boys and a girl) into our home.
simply says that “parenting is
always been important to me.
leadership.”
When I speak of posture I don’t
Let me be clear: fostering
refer to someone who stands
and adopting kids is a very
I agree with him. Over the last
up straight and never slouches
worthy and gratifying mission.
few years, I have been able to
over their computer. I don’t
We need all the help we can
pluck leadership lessons out of
refer to nations putting on a
get to tackle the problem. It
my time as an adoptive dad. I
show of force for other nations.
36 JANUARY 2022 | ISSUE # 32
