Even silence speaks volumes when leveraged in the right moment. Many leaders have taken that route. The qualities of a leader should serve the team they lead and all teams are different. I believe we can all be leaders of our own lives and hold the capacity to demonstrate leadership when needed.

Leaders are just as flawed as anyone else. They are learning. We often place them on a pedastool, but in my mind that needs to come alongside the understanding they are equals in terms of their position within the whole. We need all of the pieces of a whole to make it work. We can look to them for inspiration, but it should only go so far as to ignite our own creative fires that serve to reciprocally inspire others, including our leadership. Vision is only one small portion of the creative process and we place far too much emphasis on it in my opinion. Drive and effort are equally as important. Balance of creative forces fosters the higest possible route to cocreation.