I Wonder: Do you agree with this quote from Palmer about leadership?
“A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to project on other people his or her shadow or his or her light. A leader is a person who has the unusual degree of power to create conditions under which other people must live and move and have their being – conditions that can be either as illuminating as heaven or as shadowy as hell. A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what’s going on inside him or herself, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership creates more harm than good”.
This is the first quote for my chapter (‘Leading Compassionately: Working Together in Safe, Healthy, and Purposeful Organizations’ in the second volume of a book (The Pedagogy of Compassion) to be published at the University College London soon.
