Messy Patience in Leadership

The Point

Many of us live in a world surrounded by stuff that doesn’t work—square pegs ordered for round holes they won’t fit, things so disorganized not a flicker of hope shines an escape from chaos, people who just won’t do a good job no matter how much extra work it creates for themselves and others. Such disorder requires patient leaders.

The temptation of any leader or foreseer is to push the process along and make life better. Don’t be seduced by this. People’s quality of life must be their own, not their leader’s. Order can be taught, but not bestowed.