Leadership

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” -John Quincy Adams

Act for the people’s benefit. Trust them; leave them alone….If you don’t trust the people, you make them untrustworthy.

The Master doesn’t talk, he acts.
When his work is done,
the people say, “Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!” –Tao Te Ching by Lao– tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation)

“Authentic leadership, I think, implies people who can spot, affirm, train, support, finance, and validate gifts and leadership wherever they see them in actual practice (think multipliers instead of monarchs). Then we are not all striving toward the top but striving toward supporting the supreme work of love flowing into the world.” -Richard Rohr

The true test of your leadership is whether people get to where they want to go in life, and feel they did it all by themselves.

And then those people turn around and do the same thing for others.

And so on and so on.

Be a multiplier. Not a monarch.

P.S. – Happy Juneteenth. This post.