I've found this is true no matter what field you're in. It breaks down into two different paths: either the leader you're following doesn't inspire followership, or their vision is different from yours. Either way you're left with the problem of too much leadership. There is you and them and there's only room for one.
The solution here is for leaders to learn to follow. Our culture has set in front of us this norm of acceleration - that if you want to succeed, you move forward. Thus creating an environment of constant movement in many jobs. This causes many to not only miss the opportunity to learn to follow, even as a leader, but to believe strongly that learning to follow is not for true leaders.
Jesus did it - he talked many times of "the will of the Father". The truth is that no matter what your career or place in life, following will always be more than just part of life. I believe that Jesus' example tells us (mainly through the foot washing passage in John 13) that following should be our goal. We should not strive for more leadership, but to serve our existing leadership.
There's a lot of "what ifs" - what if my boss is like this or believes this?. This principle is not dependant on the heart, vision, fashion, experience, or any other quality of the boss. Our goal is to let leaders lead and learn to follow. Don't we truly want to learn eveything we can about leading?
The solution here is for leaders to learn to follow. Our culture has set in front of us this norm of acceleration - that if you want to succeed, you move forward. Thus creating an environment of constant movement in many jobs. This causes many to not only miss the opportunity to learn to follow, even as a leader, but to believe strongly that learning to follow is not for true leaders.
Jesus did it - he talked many times of "the will of the Father". The truth is that no matter what your career or place in life, following will always be more than just part of life. I believe that Jesus' example tells us (mainly through the foot washing passage in John 13) that following should be our goal. We should not strive for more leadership, but to serve our existing leadership.
There's a lot of "what ifs" - what if my boss is like this or believes this?. This principle is not dependant on the heart, vision, fashion, experience, or any other quality of the boss. Our goal is to let leaders lead and learn to follow. Don't we truly want to learn eveything we can about leading?
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