John Maxwell has said, ““If you think you’re leading, but no one is following, then you are only taking a walk.”
Now look, I’m not the leadership guru John Maxwell is. But I take issue with his comment. Mostly because it is wrong often enough to make me pause and object.
Good leaders define reality, as Max De Pree famously said. But sometimes the process of defining that reality is remarkably lonely. A leader can be on a very long solo walk before anyone realizes she’s onto something. What looked to begin as a lonely ramble through the woods ends …