Schools, self-help books, blog posts and social media, are full of neatly defined steps to leadership. For example, I was browsing through a popular online business publication yesterday and as I scrolled down, I read, “The Top 10 Qualities that Make a Great Leader” and “Top 100 Inspirational Quotes.” We are drawn to headlines like these because we hope they will help provide parameters that allow us to get from our starting point to our end goal. We know it will be hard but we hope someone can make leadership easy for us- and reframe it as a neat and tidy final destination. Take … [Read more...]