Sublime

Too many people in authority work to make those under them dependent on them. The more dependent the followers, the more indispensable the authority figure feels. Your job in exercising adaptive leadership is to make yourself dispensable.

The use of self:

When organizations are built not on implicit mechanisms of fear but on structures and practices that breed trust and responsibility, extraordinary and unexpected things start to happen.

They create practices for people to support each other in their inner work while doing the outer work of the organization.

Orange glorifies decisive leadership, while Green insists that leaders should be in service of those they lead.

Trust is the key to any healthy relationship—whether at home or in a business or organization.

“To hear the unheard,” he said, “is a necessary discipline to be a good ruler. For only when a ruler has learned to listen closely to the people’s hearts, hearing their feelings uncommunicated, pains unexpressed, and complaints not spoken of, can he hope to inspire confidence in the people, understand when something is wrong, and meet the true need