The Nature of Leadership

The measure of a leader isn't how many people follow them, but how many grow because of them.

For a century we pictured the leader as the hero at the top, the one who sees furthest, decides fastest and bends events to their will. But nothing alive holds together that way. A forest, a team, a school is grown rather than commanded, held by relationship, attention and trust. Leadership grows the same way, from the inside out, through a deepening relationship with yourself, your values and the living world you belong to. Less a position you take than a part you are called to play, and who you become to play it well.