Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

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.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

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.

Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.