100. What’s Important?

In the 200,000 years since modern humans evolved, we have changed and dominated our planet.

We call it Civilization.

Civilization wasn’t built by individuals it was built by groups. Families, villages, organizations, nations.

Groups of humans led by humans.

Groups of humans created most things we have around us.

The chair you’re sitting on, the floor below you and roof above, what you eat, what you wear, what you listen to, what you use.

All of it.

Groups of humans collaborating together, sometimes competing with others, always competing with nature.

Collaboration and competition require leadership.

Leadership is important.

But not the most important thing.

Leadership is also a mysterious thing.

A relationship, a magic force maybe, that can help or hinder the family, the village, the organization or the nation. It can take the group where they want to go, or sometimes where they don’t want to be.

Leadership deserves attention and care.

The quality of your leadership is important.

But not the most important thing.

“…Groups of humans created most things we have around us.…”

If you’re a leader, you stand in a line of leaders that stretches back thousands of generations, beyond recorded history.

You share the joys and challenges of millions before you.

Every leader before you has tread a path of learning. Most never trained, they just did their best. Most weren’t famous, they were only known by their own group.

Working to improve the quality of your leadership is important.

But not the most important thing.

The most important thing is not the leader, or the quality of leadership, or even working to improve that quality.

The most important thing is the group, and what the group does.

That’s it.

It’s not about you, it’s about them.

When you understand that you’re on your way to being a good leader.

Let’s talk and work on that together.

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“I might be wrong, but at least I’ve thought about it…”