Leadership’s Paradox

A paradox is a truth wearing its shirt inside out. Leadership’s Paradox looks wrong until you wear it for a day.

The way out is not to solve it but to carry it. Some loads are meant to be carried, not put down. This paradox is one of them, and the carrying itself builds the muscle.

Picture the government office at four in the afternoon. The file moves only when someone owns it; until then it is everybody's business, which is to say, nobody's.

An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. And when you forget it — you will — the world will remind you. It is a faithful tutor.