“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” — John Buchan
We are all meant to be extraordinary.
Each of us a masterpiece in our own way, with abilities and talents to be maximized, and capacities to be filled. All of which are intended to compliment the whole. For each of us is meant to have an impact. Each of us matters.
From a team perspective, it is leadership’s first mission to grasp this essential truth.
For, once you are able to see yourself in this light, then you will be able to see others from this same perspective. You will then be in a position to solicit their talents and abilities, enriching them as you begin to enrich the whole as well.
As you bring their strengths to bear and push them towards the pursuit of excellence, then work can commence on their potential. That untapped resource residing in us all. A reserve that is far more about capacity than it is weakness. The part in us that is meant to be “full-filled.”
Leadership, then, is not merely the act of soliciting that “something” from those around us. It is more so the endeavor of eliciting that something special that lay within all of us.
The task at hand.
It is already there.
For the making.
...my temporary assignment. 