Really liked this from David Foster Wallace*:
"A leader's true authority is a power you vountarily give him, and you grant him this authority not in a resigned or resentful way but happily; it feels right. Deep down, you almost always like a how a real learder makes you feel, how you find yourself working harder and pushing yourself and thinking in ways you wouldn't be able to if there weren't this person you respected and believed in and wanted to please.
In other words, a real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own."
*excerpt from Up, Simba essay in Consider the Lobster And Other Essays
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Yeah, I think leadership's a lot like falling in love. You fall for somebody when you think that person can take you somewhere you couldn't get to on your own. That only they can get you there. Then you'll follow 'em anywhere.
Lodo, great minds think alike. I was considering posting an addendum to this post to speak to that exact point. Finding that person for me (for any of us) would be AWESOME.
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