The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

“Truly creative people [leaders] are those who affirm themselves and their talents to the fullest extent
but at the same time acknowledge their dependence both on life’s unmerited favours,
forces, and circumstances, and on their need for others.”

Jack Mendelsohn

"In the future, leaders will not be remembered for their professional, technical, or cost-cutting skills
but for their wisdom, empathy, presence, intuition, and artistry.
It will be a way of leading that is more relational focused
and based upon creating an empathic resonance with others
as a network, connector, and convener of webs and communities."

M.Jones, in "Transforming Leadership Through the Imagination."