# Chapter 160

Urgent adventures

This chapter is being written from room 257, in the ER at our local hospital. Evidently I have a blood clot in my leg and then are going to try and find it? I have no idea why, because they aren’t going to take it out or anything. Perhaps just to verify that I actually have it, even though the bloodwork was very definitive or I wouldn’t be here in the first place? Perhaps by the time I reach the end of typing this chapter the answers will become more clear but I honestly have no idea. All I know at the moment is that I am lying in this hospital bed waiting for the doctor to have a gander at the ultrasounds they just took of my femoral arteries.

There is of course a great leadership lesson here and that is pay attention to what is happening! The great leader pays attention to what is happening. They do not ignore what is happening because it is inconvenient or because it doesn’t hurt all that much or because stuff just happens. No the great leaders pay attention to what is happening and they take appropriate action. I did eventually, but waiting a full week is more like inappropriate appropriate action.

Responsiveness is called for, and if you don’t do so in a timely manner then all sorts of worse stuff begins to happen. You need to pay attention and discern when something had a direct cause and effect and when something is happening that should not be happening. Those are two very different events, and the great leader sees the difference and responds quickly and concisely.