extract’d
- Filed under: leadership, pastoring
- Date: Sep 10,2009
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.
The scarcity makes leadership valuable. If everyone tries to lead all the time, not much happens. It’s discomfort that creates the leverage that makes leadership worthwhile.
In other words, if everyone could do it, they would, and it wouldn’t be worth much.
It’s uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers.
It’s uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail.
It’s uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.
It’s uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.When you identify the discomfort, you’ve found the place where a leader is needed.
– Seth Godin, from his book, Tribes
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Such an awesome book! It totally transformed my thinking about leadership and multiplying leaders… I want to be the unicorn in the balloon factory!
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