2: The Importance of Balance to Leadership

While Aang is trapped in the ice, the world continues without the Avatar, slowly becoming a world out of balance. Without the Avatar, the world became unbalanced. Upon his return, Aang was tasked with getting the world back to a more balanced state, but without his people, Aang was unbalanced as well. The Avatar must strive for internal balance as well as help the world to become more balanced. While Aang’s unbalanced world was a unique situation for him, even in a world with greater balance, Korra faces struggles to achieve personal balance and balance between her many responsibilities.

On the journey of leadership, we may often feel unbalanced. The demands on a leader can be quite challenging and can lead to intrapersonal and interpersonal imbalance. How do we maintain our balance in a world that can force us to become unbalanced? There are lessons that we can derive from Aang and Korra’s adventures that will help us to ensure balance in leadership.