Leadership is tricky business. Doesn't matter if we're talking parenting, coaching, preachering, teaching, bossing, generaling, or....
Effective leaders spend far more of their time, effort, thinking, and energy on building followership. Autocratic leaders depend on compliance, through legalism and force, to achieve desired outcomes.
Armies that won't march... Employees that slow roll work... Children that won't mind... Teams that won't commit... All are tells of uninvested followers.
Autocrats respond by executing, firing, beating, dismissing the non-compliant.
Authentic leaders, on the other hand, respond by making a clearer, better case for followership toward noble and worthy goals.
By the way, TRUST (not force) is the precursor to followership. In case you were wondering.
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