The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.
Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.
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.