Are you a Bootist?
Bootism™ is the art of leading and living in a way that is congruent for you while setting yourself up for success to do it. "Boots on" gives leadership that extra kick. Bootist Leadership™ fosters positive impact and results. It’s a choice. It’s not for everyone. But for those who choose it, it’s the secret sauce for making sustainable impact in their business and life. So are you a Bootist? Take this short quiz to find out. Only you know…but if you check a lot of these, we likely have lots to talk about!
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You value doing what you really want to do, honoring your values, achieving your goals, and resist anyone else telling you what to do. In fact, you’ve told people to "take a hike" (or really really wanted to), when they’ve pushed you to do something that felt incongruent. |
| You care deeply about your organization, the results you create, the profits, the bottom line – all of it – but you also care deeply about the people, the energy of the organization and its spirit (and maybe even more so because you know that your people drive your results – it’s all about the people.) | |
| You’re committed to continuous growth, development and evolution of you, your organization, your relationships and pretty much everything else. | |
| You believe that we’re all on our own path (or want to believe it)…at a minimum, you know, or strongly sense, that your path is, in fact, your own…and you have to lead it. (Or want to believe it.) | |
| You believe that leadership starts with "me" – I have to lead myself first if I’m to be any good at leading others (or you want to believe it) | |
| You believe that feeling good is important – and that you can create that (or want to believe it) | |
| You believe that people are important and that life is, in fact, in relationship (or want to believe it) | |
| You believe that there’s more to "it" than meets the eye – that you can create results by managing your mindset, acknowledging your thinking, and designing for presence (or want to believe it) | |
| You believe that you don’t have to do EVERYTHING…that you can actually design for the gaps…and that you can make it happen (or want to believe it) | |
| You believe that leadership is a way of being and leading is a verb (or want to believe it) | |
| You believe that there are no "right" answers…that truly you can co-design and create a life and organization authentically | |
| You believe you are a Bootist (or want to believe it) and want to unfold even more of your own Bootist self. | |
| Upon completion of reading this quiz (or the "little book"…You believe that there is stuff in this quiz/book that is brilliant and resonates, stuff that isn’t, and doesn’t, and stuff that’s just plain wrong…and you’re okay with it…because you know what works for you, and you’re a Bootist. |
Are you a Bootist? Notice there is no official "Bootist Scoring Key" here. That’s because it’s up to you to decide whether Bootism is for you or not, if you want to be one, how you want to use it and what you’ll do with it. That said, in my experience, the more you mark, the more Bootist you likely are…For more information and to step further into your "bootness" please sign up (on the right hand side of our website) to receive a copy of BootTalk, and even better, purchase your copy of "The Little Book of Bootism".
