Leaders inspire a vision with their team. Rather than telling people what to do, leaders listen to their constituents, create a mission, and then get out of the way. In the twentieth century, we waited to be told what to do. A basic philosophy of thismodel is that leaders need to move from twentieth-century leadership, where followers are required to adapt to the leader, to twenty-first-century leadership, where leaders must adapt to followers. Twentieth-century leadership implies, "I am the boss. Do what I say." Enlightened leadership is based upon the following rationale: "I will only have followers if I use influence rather than power in a manner that adapts and connects to the followers who may choose to join me."
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