Leadership Begins with Giving

For leadership to work in the modern era, the people being lead need to feel that their leader is invested in them.  We have moved past the time of strict command-type environments.  In a capitalist society, the best and brightest have options.  To lead that best and brightest, to even attract them, involves selling them of vision of a collective that is greater than the sum of its parts.  To keep them involves living up to it.  Leadership in such an environment involves putting ourselves in the shoes of the other.  People are motivated when they are made to understand what is in it for them.