If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.
I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.
Attention is the currency of leadership.
What people resist is not change per se, but loss.
And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.