10. I want to ask you three additional questions about your civic life: First, what motivates or inspires you to engage in community activities and causes? Second, do you feel that you are sacrificing anything in your life by being deeply involved in our community’s civic organizations? Third, what personal benefits do you get from your civic involvements?
11. One of the benefits of growing older is that we are increasingly able to reflect on our experiences and to learn from them. Have you found any patterns of personal behavior no longer useful in your leadership role? Is so, what are these and how have you changed?
12. What leadership qualities do you most admire in effective leaders that you have known? What qualities do you least admire in leaders?
13. What, if any, religious or spiritual traditions and practices do you most draw upon in exercising leadership?
14. How has your leadership style changed as you have progressed in life?
15. What is the one mistake you see leaders making more frequently than others?
16. What are you doing to continue growing and developing as a leader?
17. The two characteristics most often associated with sage leader wisdom are unusual experience and the exercise of sound judgment. What does having wisdom mean to you?
18. What are the one or two peak experiences in your life that set you on the path you’re on today?
19. You probably know other individuals who have sage leadership talents and skills but are not currently involved in the civic life of our community. Why do you believe they choose to be uninvolved? What, if anything, might be done to get them engaged?
20. One final question: It is often said that the quality of life in our community is highly attractive and unusual. Do you believe this to be true? If yes, what are the three or four things about our community that you most value and make you want to continue living here?
21. Is there anything else you’d like to say or ask before we close?
Issue One: The Investigation of Theory S
Setting the Stage for Theory S: I. Demography
Setting the Stage for Theory S: III. From Aging to Saging
Setting the Stage for Theory S: IV. The Rise of Civic Engagement
Emergent Sage Leadership: Interview of Christine Kelly
Senior Sage Leadership: Interview of Norman Westmore
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