>leadership has never been hierarchical--only management and the wielding
>of authority and control has been hierarchical. Leadership has always
>depended on the clear-sightedness of purpose, the communication of that
>purpose and the degree to which partners (or followers) organized
>themselves around that purpose.
A shorthand way of saying this is that leaders never set out to lead,
they set out to do something else. Other people choose to go along.
Regards,
Fred Nickols
The Distance Consulting Company
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