"How about 'I don't Know'?" (guest post by MSI Press author, Julia Aziz)


Today's blog post is provided by Julia Aziz, author of Lessons of Labor.

It’s been interesting to watch all the expertise being shared in a situation that almost no one alive today has ever lived through. Yes, decisions need to be made quickly in a crisis, and we have to use the limited information available to make them. Leaders, especially community-minded, heart-centered, intelligent leaders, are genuinely needed to set the tone, and there’s a lot of societal pressure on leaders to speak with the voice of authority. But what I’m not hearing enough of in the general discourse is, “I don’t know.”

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Meet Julia Aziz.



Listen to Julia (podcast) on March 20, 2020.


Read more posts by and about Julia and her book, Lessons of Labor, HERE.






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