“When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.”
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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.