The Mountain Called Leadership

The sacrifice it requires to be a great leader is a lesson few teach when preaching the fiction that “we are all leaders.” This sermon is disingenuous, and often times spewed to and by those minds who can’t grasp the totality of responsibility and accountability, selflessness, and sacrifice that is the foundation, the bedrock, all great leaders are built on. 

To be a truly great leader, it is not merely enough to be a person who does their job; it is a staple of the Greatest of Greats, to inspire those to find within themselves the grit and determination that should be at the heart of everything they do. This truth often times crushes a follower's aspiration to now lead the leaderless. But the extraordinary people ask, “why not me?”

Leadership is a mountain too high for most to climb and too treacherous for most to even muster the courage to begin. Yet and still, to reach its pinnacle, like oxygen on a mountain peak, the fuel necessary to reach the top becomes more and more scarce the higher you ascend. Pace yourself, breathe easy, and continue on.