I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.
Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.
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.
The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.