Leadership doesn't happen

by telling employees what to do. That is called employment. Leadership is about sharing the vision of your heart with people who can help you to make it happen. These people are behaving as employers. They limp along in policy maintenance mode where there is no capacity for creative thinking. Michaelangelo was both leader and manager. He didn't do all the work but his heart was so much on task and his expertise was such that he was able to manage by delegating. Delegation is about jealously giving up tasks to others only because he was unable to physically accomplish everything himself. Had Julius 2 or Michaelangelo or the Medici's heatrs not been in it no matter how good the other artists, nothing would have happened. It explains why nothing has happened for 13 years in the situation I find myself in. They would do well to listen to Gen Richard Myers of the US Army explain how US Minister for War Rumsfeld operates: Rumsfeld tells his vision to his experts and gets them to advise him with their best judgements. If they need time to think about it he gives them time. To do nothing is not an option. This is what I want to do. Give me your best advice on HOW to do it - not WHY it should not be done. I'm the leader - how can I do what I want to do. If you claim to be a leader and you've got nothing you want to do, then you are no leader at all. You're just drawing a salary for policy maintenance.