County Commission | The Magazine August 2017 | Page 7

At the Association's convention
county family will talk about their
in August we will focus attention on experiences as leadership from a
that kind of leadership. For today,
variety of angles. Somewhere in that
at the local level, this Association
discussion, each and every county
is committed to growing leaders. It official and employee in attendance
is too easy to run for office, pledge
should be able to find information
to do something that you can never that will allow them to unlock the
do, and then settle
into the daily
The solution lies not in solving
routine of blaming
and screaming.
the individual crisis at hand, but
Alabama and its
counties have
in equipping people with
suffered for way
too long because
a passion for leading inside
of that approach to
problem solving.
their community.
Many of
the convention’s
sessions will focus on real
door in their community.
opportunities that exist for elected
For far too long in Alabama,
officials and staff members to take
especially in the last few years,
up the challenge of being real
leaders have been more interested
leaders. During one segment of the
in pointing out the failings of other
program, seven members of the
leaders, blaming the problems on
someone else and have shouted out
obvious – and unproductive – ideas
that serve only to generate new, and
even more complicated, problems.
The solution lies not in solving
the individual crisis at hand, but
in equipping people with a passion
for leading inside their community.
At the local level, that’s really the
only hope for our state to make any
significant improvement. Clearly,
today our local communities are at
a crossroad.
Alabama’s plane home is
about to pull out of the gate. And,
unfortunately, we are standing
around on a sidewalk watching
people yell at each other. Our only
hope is that there is at least one
person in every county who will
resolve to lead the community away
from the screaming crowd and
toward a real solution.
I hope you’ll join us in August as
we focus on those opportunities. n
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