Here’s a great quote, that goes to the very heart of leadership:
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
– Ralph Nader
I could not agree more: good leaders create devoted followers, but great leaders create more leaders. Lao Tzu spoke to the same thing 2500 years ago when he said:
A leader is best when the people are hardly aware of his existence,
not so good when people stand in fear,
worse, when people are contemptuous.Fail to honour people, and they will fail to honour you.
But a good leader who speaks little,
when his task is accomplished, his work done,
the people say “We did it ourselves.”
Have you known a leader, whose leadership style naturally created more leaders around him or her? What did that leader do?
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