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From Peter Senge:
"In the West we tend to think of leadership as a quality
that exists in certain people. This usual way of thinking has many traps.
"We
search for special individuals with leadership potential, rather than
developing the leadership potential in everyone.
"We are easily distracted by
what this or that leader is doing, by the melodrama of people in power trying
to maintain their power and others trying to wrest it from them. When things
are going poorly, we blame the situation on incompetent leaders, thereby
avoiding any personal responsibility. When things become desperate, we can
easily find ourselves waiting for a great leader to rescue us.
"Through all of
this, we totally miss the bigger question: 'What are we, collectively, able to
create?'"
Well said.
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Social Leader Daily by Oliver DeMille
