Service.

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 tapping their potential.

That reservoir 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. Leadership is more so the endeavor of eliciting that something special – the greatness – that lies within all of us.

Through serving them.