I've been exploring LinkedIn lately. At first, it just seemed like another social networking site with an emphasis on business, a bit different in that way than Facebook for example. I was invited initially by my GM, Clay Garland, who is becoming the master of all things networking related. I haven't done too much with it until recently when I read in another business blog about LinkedIn Answers, where people propose questions and get the vast universe of LinkedIn folks to respond. I read a few of them, posted a few responses myself and really enjoyed the interaction and the information I saw.

So I decided to propose a question myself: "What is the most important quality for a leader?" I posted the question yesterday before a meeting and by the end of the meeting 3 hours later, I had over 15 replies. I now have 28 and it is a great read to go through the answers and see how people think about this topic. Man, there are some smart people out there!

Anyway, I'm going to post a follow-up here on the blog when all responses are in (the question stays up for 7 days) with some highlights and my take on the responses.

Good stuff!

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A shout out to J Mac, my pastoral good buddy from True North Church, who put the "Free Hugs" video from YouTube into his blog after seeing it on mine. That video still is cool to me! And the back story is even better - read more about it on the YouTube site for the video.