Great Insights on Role Models & Leaders from Alan Webber

Once again, Alan Webber has some great insights for social leaders.

In a recent article entitled “What’s a Role Model,” Mr. Webber asks us to pause and identify what a true role model is.

People are disappointed in Tiger Woods, writes Webber, because he turned out to not be a role model. Webber then challenges:

“Raise your hand if you ever thought Tiger Woods was a role model. Or Brad Pitt. Or any Hollywood star or starlet. Or any professional athlete. Or any super-rich CEO from the world of big business. It was, after all, Charles Barkley, pro basketballer and notorious gambler at the high-stakes tables in Las Vegas, who famously pronounced that he wasn’t a role model and didn’t want to be considered one…

“When it comes to role models, we’ve once again confused celebrity with role models…We’ve confused leaders with celebrities.”

Read the entire article — it’s definitely worth the read.

And like Webber says,

“Maybe we can have a more reality-based society if we kick the celebrity habit and try to get back to things that matter, things that make sense.”

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Stephen Palmer is a book writer for mission-driven leaders, a small business lead generation website design architect and persuasive website copywriter, a co-founder of The Center for Social Leadership, and the author of Uncommon Sense: A Common Citizen’s Guide to Rebuilding America.

He co-authored the New York Times bestseller Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity, as well as Hub Mentality: Shifting from Business Transactions to Community Interaction.

He is a liberal-arts graduate of George Wythe University and a graduate and faculty member of the “non-traditional business school” Wizard Academy.

Stephen resides in Round Rock, Texas with his gorgeous wife Karina, awesome son Alex, and princess daughters Libby, Avery, and Laela.

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