Once Upon A Time....
there lived a wicked Dragon Queen...obsessed with power and
craving adoration no matter what it took or to whom she had to
ravage to get it. Her kingdom was doomed. She had
reined in incompetence, manipulation, and deceit for years and
now the Gods were demanding her throne. This day
had dawned due to the combined efforts of all the maidens
determined to bring to light her dark and evil agenda. The
maidens had watched a once bright and happy kingdom, abundant in
nourishment for all who resided there, slowly become oppressive and
deadly to any who ventured too close to the powers of the wicked
Queen. So on this day, the decision had
been made...the Dragon Queen was dismissed by a
public and humiliating mandate. The throne was to be given to
another, and the wicked Dragon Queen was to be banished to
lands too far away for her to be a threat to anyone in the
kingdom ever again. The Dragon Queen was powerless, at
long last!!
The maidens were promoted to postions of authority and given high
praise by the Gods. It was to be a new day of restoration and
recovery for the kingdom. Everyone celebrated and music
filled the land!
Oh, fear
not. The wicked Dragon Queen will move on. She will move
to a new land unfamiliar with all her maniplulative and
toxic spells, that she will cast immediately upon
arrival. Her manipulative grab for power will begin anew. The
spell gives her 6 months before one by one, people
begin to realize she is deceitful and lacking in
authenticity. She'll spend the next 6 months creating
confusion and pretending to be wounded by all the doubters around
her. She'll have reasons and excuses for everything
she's not able to confront honestly. Finally, when she's in
a corner, she'll cry foul…she'll shed fake tears and beg
for understanding and prayer. She'll pretend to seek out
spiritual guidance …as she fights back against anyone
who attempts to reveal her true self. (The Queen
has used this strategy without fail for 40
years!!!). The Queen will
ruin the lives of all those who naively believed the trickery
she used to climb her way to social acceptance. And if
no one challenges her successfully, another kingdom will be in
ruins because of the evil control of the Dragon Queen.
Okay, enough with the fairy tale stuff. This
wasn't a fairy tale. It was real, but you can see it
would have made an excellent story line for a modern day tale of
dragons and slayers. There were,
however, real maidens who fought to rid the
kingdom of this dragon. Today we call the kingdoms businesses
and the people at the top who manage them CEOs. A good CEO
fosters growth, both in the profit margin of the company and
personally in the lives of the people they lead. A bad CEO
can destroy both business and lives. In this story there
were women forever affected by this manipulative and
deceitful CEO. But this is a happy ending. This
isn't about what damage one greedy and dysfunctional
person can cause in one company. This is about what
happens when those who are determined NOT to let the wicked
win FIGHT BACK.
To the women who battled to free the community of the
strangle-hold one woman had on truth and reality....BRAVO!!!
These women, women I fought along side with until I was removed
from the battle ground, were any thing but weak or deserving of all
that was heaped on them. These women were heroic in
their determination to take back truth. They didn’t
stoop to being ugly and vengeful...they were simply
persistent and determined in shining a light on
the cancer that was a bad CEO and then let the
community make the healing cut. Lesser women wouldn't
have been able to take the constant passive-aggressive attacks
and emotional warfare dished out by the DRAGON. Lesser women
would have moved on, deciding she wasn't worth the toll on
their self-esteem and mental health. But these women banded
together and little by little forced people to see the truth right
in front of them…a textbook example of
a narcissistic DRAGON QUEEN.
What was left after the final battle was swiftly
razed by the Board of Directors immediately following the decision
to give the company to someone else. Of monumental
importance was the fact it no longer belonged to the DRAGON
QUEEN! SHE HAD LOST! They could hold their
heads high and take comfort in the fact that while they had lost
many of the battles....THEY HAD WON THE WAR!. Valuable
people had been lost along the way...betrayed by the DRAGON
and cast aside like refuse, but those cast aside carried
on the fight by supporting, from the sidelines, the warriors
still at war. Yes, we all need counseling and we'll
probably need medication for post traumatic stress disorder for the
rest of their lives….BUT THE DRAGON HAD BEEN
DEFEATED!!!
These are the kind of women I gravitate toward; sheros.
Warriors fighting with everything good in women;
loyality, honesty, devotion, love against everything ugly in
women; pride, vanity, envy, laziness, and manipulation. The
Dragon Queen has created her identity based on manipulation,
deceit, and denial and she fails, even now, to understand
she can never win against sincerity, honesty, and
loyalty. There comes a time in everyone’s life
when they have to decide what is more important…doing what
is fair or doing what is right. It’s my belief if everyone
focused on doing only what is right…there would never be a need to
argue about what is fair.
So, the war is won...church bells ring
in celebration. Some of these maidens will not stay in this
kingdom, as there are other Dragons to be removed from promising
kingdoms. It may be they are needed in far flung places to
teach others the importance of being authentic and honest in
how you conduct yourself. It may be there are countless
places praying for someone to come along and show them what wonders
are to be when you live by the belief that the world needs
people who do what is right over what is fair. Dragons
beware! You're days are numbered. Long live maidens
willing to slay dragons!!!
