Thanks, Susan! I'm glad you enjoyed it. This was a fun post to write. The idea first came to me during the winter months, but it really clung to me and clamored to be written when I started working on my garden this year. I love the concept of intentionality, of being purposeful in life and not just letting life pass you by. The more I thought about it, while getting my garden going, the more correlations I saw between the gardening process and being an intentional leader.

There are those leaders who can get by for some time on charisma alone. But over time, the attraction fades. Leaders who seek to learn and continue to refine the art of leadership, like those of us here in the Lead Change group, leave a lasting legacy, much as a master gardener plans for the future, harvesting and saving heirloom seeds for future plantings, cultivating the best qualities of the plants they grow.

The analogy just keeps going... :-)