Day 3 of the ‘Leadership Redefined – Reclaimed’ women’s retreat. More than any other time, today it is very clear to me: leadership is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with credentials, positional leverage, social status, etc….it has to do with who we are.
LIke charity begins at home, leadership begins in creating our own lives. We lead the same way we live. How can it be otherwise? What is leadership without the leader? Am I a living expression of that which I seek from/demand of others?
Does ‘leadership’ require ‘follower-ship’? Our current models of and philosophies about leadership are profoundly out-of-step with all that we know of a quantum world. I wonder what it is that continues to have us believe that we can move forward in the discovery of a quantum world and continue to be who we have already been…and lead as we have always led? Just how silly are we…..
Leadership is personal….highly personal…perhaps even an experience and/or expression that is intimate. Intimacy with ‘self’. Leadership as ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’. We talk about it as a philosophy…but do we have what it takes to live it?
It’s been a long day.
Breathing is good….
I believe a Leader (in my definition of it) does not require followers. It simply is about living and expressing yourself, speaking from the place of truth and modeling/creating your world from that point.
By doing so others are inspired and awakened. They need not follow, after all we are each equally as brilliant and capable as the other.
See you tomorrow!