Leadership means understanding that you will never be “ready enough” and beginning anyways. Leadership means being frightened by the degree to which others trust you and consoled by the fact that you must trust them back. It means waiting for the more qualified person sitting beside you to call things to order and then realizing that the task will fall to you. Leadership means leaving human respect somewhere near your photos from middle school. It means being slightly scrupulous so that harmful gossip will never have substantiation and ignoring the harmless gossip, because it will never go away. It means sacrificing your credibility, should the common good so require. Leadership means sharing your experience and adding an infusion of candour and honesty to the cases of “group think” that you come across. It requires you to vocalize your imagination even when you think they’ll laugh at you. It means having more energy than you have. Leadership means educating and education needs leaders.
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