Leadership

Introduction

Leadership is an enabling function for a cause that requires the coordinated agency of others.

Module 1

Use the Voice

Under pressure, slow the voice enough that thought can stay ahead of it.

Module 2

Rhetoric

The useful thing is not to imitate great speakers. It is to notice what they are doing.

Module 3

How Identity Forms Before Anyone Chooses It

The container may come first. The meaning may come later.

Module 4

Where Influence Ends and Coercion Begins

Coercion produces agency for the leader by reducing it everywhere else.

Module 5

What the System Can Hand You and What It Cannot

A title can tell you that the decision belongs to you. It cannot certify your judgment.

Module 6

Hold the Pause

Leadership without a cause is tyranny.

Adieu

The leader matters. But the leader is not the cause.