The most effective leadership isn’t about making change happen.
When leadership is centered on being the maker of change, it’s typically command, not leadership. It leverages power over others to build followers and drive an often limited and shortsighted agenda forward. When command is gone, so too is the change.
The most effective leadership is ultimately centered on creating and co-creating the conditions that can produce change and that can eventually cause change to be self-sustaining.
The most effective leadership harnesses trust, togetherness, and collaboration to build other leaders and generate power with others, bringing forward a multitude of perspectives to see better and further. A specific leader might move on, but the change endures.
One of the greatest satisfactions as a leader is to fade into the background and trust change to unfold.
