Leadership Is A Sacred Trust

Leadership is a sacred trust. When someone holds the lives of others in their hands, employees or volunteers or those who follow for whatever reason, there is depth of responsibility that goes beyond making sure they are compensated for their time. Each follower has dreams, has hopes, has a future. Each has a family depending on them, who also share dreams and hopes and a future. Each will go forward from this leader-follower interaction more scarred or more healed, more confident or more insecure, more fully human or more damaged.

Leadership is a sacred trust.

Leadership is a sacred trust. When someone holds the vision of accomplishing worthy endeavors in their hands, to produce something of value or to serve people in need or to fulfill a valuable mission for whatever reason, there is a depth of responsibility which goes beyond making sure sales goals are met or profits are increased or the organization becomes the largest, most important, powerful whatever. Each leader has a community of people depending on them, who share dreams and hopes and a future. Each has a community of buyers or users or learners who will go forward from this transaction more filled or more empty, more taken advantage of or more cared for, more prepared for success and health and quality of life or not.

Leadership is a sacred trust.

Leadership is a sacred trust. Leaders have a high calling. Leaders may not simply serve themselves but others. Anything less is not leadership, but selfishness. Selfservingness. ServingOnesSelfishness. No leader is perfect, all have flaws, weaknesses, but all true leaders recognize that they attend to something much larger than themselves, for a wider circle of people than themselves, with effects that will ripple outward and downstream well beyond their lifetime.

Leadership is a sacred trust.