Leading myself.

When we talk of leadership, we invariably think of others as followers: I am leading, they are following.

The most important leadership, though, is leading oneself.

There is a follower in each of us. That part of our mind that needs direction. That part of our mind that wants someone else to remove the ambiguities so that it can act.

And for that part of the mind, that follower, the best leader is ourselves. When we delegate that leadership to someone else, we lose our autonomy and to some extent our genius too.

Yes, we can be inspired by others, we can learn from others, but we need to learn to lead ourselves.