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FORUM : ? "" P | There's a price for leadership Doat wait for someone eke to make all the calk. ^ -Walk the Talk \ -Anonymous b I - What does it take to be a J leader? Is it something you can pay 'felt in dollars and cents? Or, does it | met a physical toll also? And just <wat is this thing called leadership? J J? Leadership has its costs. That's what international business con sultant, Jim Crupi says. There are also perils: excessive pride, popu larity, indispensability and abuse of power. Whether you are a leader - someone is following you - or in a (position of leadership, you risk the {dangers of leadership, r Sometimes you take yourself jtoo seriously and get caught up in ?believing your own "press clip jpings." This belief has lead many a jtender to feeling indispensable and jproud. There is nothing like stick ling your chest out and taking cred it for a job well done and believing jfou did it alone. "Leadership requires commit ment," says a senior executive. X/jace you commit you move for ward and eliminate internal con fiipts. You are willing to accept the cpsts associated with the task of leadership. Crupi also suggests V that leaders pay a price for leader ship in the following ways: a cost to others, opposition, rejection, fatigue, loneliness and mistakes. It has been thirty years this month since Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. The cost of leadership was very expensive to him. Who does a leader go to when others are looking to him to always have the answers. An incident in "Martin & Malcolm & America," by James H. Cone, describes King being unable to cope with his frus tration and despair. Shortly after returning home from a committee meeting con cerning the bus boycott in 1956, he received a call. "N r we are tired of you and your mess now, and if you are not out of this town in three days , we're going to blow your brains out and blow up your house." He bowed down over a cup of coffee and prayed a prayer. "Lord, I'm down here trying to do what's right. I think I'm right. I think the cause that we represent is right. But Lord, I must confess that I'm faltering, I'm losing my courage, and I can't let the people see me like this because if they see me weak and losing my courage they will begin to get weak." "Almost out of nowhere," he said, "I heard a voice. Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth. And lo, I will be with you, even until the end of the world." He was ready to face anything after that experience. He paid the price when the pressure was on. He was like that chunk of coal made good under pressure. Part of the hidden cost is the sacrifice you have to pay. In the "Long Walk To Free dom", Nelson Mandela tells about his sacrifice through struggle, set back, hope and triumph. His sacri fice cost his marriage and separation from his children. He began his autobiography in 1974 during imprisonment on Robben Island. The manuscript he kept with him was discovered by authorities and confiscated. Thanks to his friends, the original manuscript reached its destination and he resumed work on it after his release from prison in 1990. He sacrificed 27 years of his life in prison. He did what he had to do! While he was committed to his convictions, the price he paid was a tremendous cost to his family. "It is not the critic who counts," said Theodore Roosevelt, "not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errS and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Leadership has its costs! Nigel Alston is an executive for Integon Insurance Company. \ Motivational Moments MI?ol Alston NOTICE OF A CITIZENS INFORMATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE PROPOSED INTERSECTION REALIGNMENT OF SOUTH MAIN STREET AND WAUGHTOWN STREET Project 9.8091857 U-2926 Foreylh County A citizens informational workshop will be held on Thursday, April 23,1998 in the Vintage Theatre located at 7 Vintage Avenue in Winston-Salem. This will be an informal open-house workshop conducted between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Those wishing to attend may do so at their convenience during these hours. The purpose of this informational workshop is to present information, answer questions, and receive comments during the planning and early design stages of the proposed realignment of the South Main Street (SR 2456)/Waughtown Street intersection. Information presented at this workshop will be general in nature because no detailed designs have been developed. Public comments will help determine the best design for the project Representatives of the Department of Transportation will be available to discuss the proposed project with those attending. Anyone desiring additional information about the workshop may contact Ms. Yvonne Goldblatt, North Carolina Department of Transportation, Planning and Environmental Branch, P.O. Box 25201, Raleigh, NC 27611 or by telephone at (919) 733-7844 - Extension 214. ! NCDOT - in compliance with the American's With Disabilities Act - will provide auxiliary aids and services for disabled persons who wish to participate in the workshop. To receive special services, please call Ms. Goldblatt at the above number to give adequate notice prior to the date of the workshop. I ur Li aid !tf! , Not long ago in a not too dis tant place, an industry happened upon the perfect product. It was cpeap to make. It made its users ftp 1 good, and it was very addic tive. ha The business world marveled 4&, this discovery and rushed to ftpp^what seemed to be endless ggofits. Even when it was discov ered that the product, when used as directed, would kill its users, the crafty captains of industry fretted not. They would make up Ipr the loss with new markets. They set their sights on African Americans, who smoked far less in the 1950s than people in other communities. They began by spreading their money to every cause and institution that African Americans hold dear. ,. They funded their music, their /u}, their concerts, their schools .and their churches. They gave money to African-American family reunion groups and spon sored family reunion storytelling contests for children. African-American streets, buildings and homes bore larger than-life signs proclaiming the product's "benefits." m ? The industry became so jinferained into community life jilyU few protested when the death toll among African Ameri cans, as a result of this product, climbed to more than 50,000 annually. Unfortunately, this is not science fiction but the real-life story of the tobacco industry's targeting of African Americans. Recently leaked documents show Sow Big Tobacco plotted to addict African Americans to high nicotine, mentholated fciga rpttes. These documents demon Htate, in cold-blooded detail, fujw tobacco industry executives Let's clear the air y / Guest Column Makani N. Thmmba ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ' ' e saw African Americans as a growth market for the tobacco industry. Not content to simply market products, the tobacco industry pioneered promotional campaigns that made tobacco a central feature of African-Amer ican life. Few African Amer ican leaders have expressed concern in the face of these dis closures. They simply owe Big Tobacco too much. While most African-Ameri can leaders go about their busi ness in silence, President Clinton ponders a limited offer of legal immunity to the tobacco indus try in exchange for a cash settle ment. The money, according to the Clinton administration, would go to fund child-care poli cies and other family programs mostly for the middle class. These negotiations have vir tually ignored the millions of African-Americans living on the front lines of the tobacco wars. Few African-American victims of the tobacco industry can retain high-priced litigators or afford the time and energy of a protracted civil suit. Most are battling for meager insurance benefits and for their lives. Tobacco has caused more death and destruction in the African- American community than illegal drugs, alcohol, AIDS and violence combined. Hun dreds of thousands of black chil dren suffer from exposure to secondhand smoke in the form of asthma and other respiratory ill nesses. A 1993 Center for Disease Control study showed that African Americans are least like-; ly to be advised by their doctors to quit smoking. According to a University of North Carolina study, up until 10 years ago African Americans were more likely than any other group to receive medical advice to start smoking for stress and weight management. Clinton's consideration of tobacco industry immunity in the face of this suffering is ironic, to say the least. Under "The Indi vidual Responsibility Act of 1995," greatly decreased support to communities left to deal with the great tobacco industry's impact. Community clinics and hospitals have been shut down. Access to medical care has been limited, and basic financial sup port for families has been slashed. Any offer of immunity can only increase the burden on communities while letting the industry off the hook. The newly released docu ments show the industry's sinister intent to addict African Ameri cans to the most deadly of its brands. The havoc it has wreaked and the profits it has reaped are too immense to allow it to simply buy its way out. Instead of immunity and settlement, Clin ton should tell the tobacco indus try to pay its fair share with no strings attached. That's the least it can do for the African-American communi ty Makani N. Themba is co-direc tor of The Praxis Project, a media and policy advocacy organization based in Oakland, Calif. 1 NOTICE OF AN OPEN-HOUSE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED WIDENING/IMPROVEMENTS OF LEWISVILLE-CLEMMONS ROAD FROM PEACE HAVEN ROAD TO US 421 TO INCLUDE US 421 INTERCHANGE REVISION Project 8.2623601 U-3119 Forsyth County The North CaroHna Deportment of Transportation will hold the above haw poWtehoorioBmi'nMoSoy, AprUll. 1990 from 4d? pna. to 7:00 p.m. in the Southwest Elementary School Cafeteria located at 1S311 Southwest School Drive in Clemmons. Interested individnals may attend this hearing at their convenience between the above stated hours. I Division of Highways personnel wifl he available to provide inform- I ation, answer questions, and take comments regarding this project A formal public bearing regarding this project was conducted on December 8,1997 in the Southwest Elementary School Auditorium. Changes to the original design have been made based on updated traffic I projections anti verbal/written comments received from the public hearing process. I This project proposes to widen/improve existing LewisviOe-Clemnaons Road from Peace Haven Road (SR 1891) to US 421 ? a distance of approximately IS miles. The recommended widening consists of a four-1 lane roadway separated by a raised grass median with curb and gutter I from Peace Haven Road to the US 421 Interchange. In addition, safety improvements have been proposed at West Forsyth High School. The I bridge over US 421 will be replaced. The interchange at US 421 will be I revised as part of this project Plans setting forth the location and design and a copy of the for public review in the Lewisville Town Government Complex located I at 4550 ShaDowford Road in Lewisville; In the Clemmons Tbwn Government Complex located al 3715 Clemmons Road in Ctenunons; I and in the North Carolina Department of Transportation's Division Office located at 2125 Cloverdale Avenue in Winston-Salem. Representatives of the Department of Transportation will be available to discuss the proposed project with those attending the Public Hearing. I Anyone desiring additional information may write to Mr. L. L. Hendricks, Citizens Participation Unit, P. O. Box 25201, Raleigh, NC I 27611; telephone (919) 250-4092; FAX (919) 250-4208; or email Diendricks @ doh.doCstate.nc. us. NCDOT - in compliance with the American's With Disabilities Act-will I provide auxiliary aids and services for disabled persons who wish to I participate in the hearing. 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