King On Leadership
It’s not my habit to regularly quote other authors just for the sake of quoting, but this is not the first time I’m quoting J. Timothy King (and probably not the last).
This great text is from his article Moving Chairs and Why It’s Cool. I found it to be so accurate, thought-provoking and well-written, that I just had to share:
Similarly, great leaders make as many enemies as friends, and most of what they do goes unnoticed for a long, long time. Leadership is about taking the initiative, about challenging the status quo. Leadership is about vision and perseverance. It’s about listening and humility and letting others take the credit and pleasure in the little gains that other people accomplish. Leadership is about setting an example and letting someone else run with it. This is the kind of leadership that may earn you no accolades, no awards. In fact, people may criticize you at first, because they don’t see the difference it makes. Even worse, they may ignore you. But it does make a difference. Or rather, a bunch of little differences.
That’s poetry!
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