Quick Takes: Benched - A Neighborhood Initiative

I believe that all leadership begins with personal initiative. The rest is commentary.

Here's a group of young people who took initiative to both honor and beautify a little corner of their city Atlanta.

Benched from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.

It is a little thing - a bench at a bus stop. But, if you take a moment to think about it, imagine what could happen if 1% of your city or community took that initiative this week.

Okay, let's do the math

In Atlanta proper, at last count, there were  519,145 people and 5,626,400 in the whole metropolitan area. . One percent, means 5k in Atlanta and 56k people in the metro area taking initiative to make a difference. Let's suppose that every project needs four people, like the four people in the video. This means that in metro Atlanta, 14k projects could be conducted in the matter of days.

This is the why I see initiative as the missing element in our understanding of leadership today.

Let's go do something!

HT: Bill Kinnon and Andy Crouch