Leadership: The Alchemy of Significance
Rabbi Harold Kushner once wrote, “Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power…Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least be a little bit different for our having passed through it.” Great leaders seem to comprehend this at a different level than most people. These leaders are aware, not only of their own significance, but, most importantly, of the significance of those they are leading. True leaders not only believe this with all their heart, but they communicate it without any effort or personal agenda.
Leadership has been defined as the ability to influence. Have you ever tried to influence someone who feels insignificant or someone with whom you have no rapport? How we react to others is based in a very large part on how they make us feel…about ourselves. The people we have the most rapport with are those who make us feel the most significant. Significance is a funny thing in that the more significant we make ourselves to others, the more significant we become to ourselves. If you have ever walked away from a manager feeling that you are so much more than you were before meeting with them, you have been exposed to leadership.
The ability to introduce people to their own significance starts with the leaders’ own conviction that they themselves are significant to the organization. It is difficult to communicate an emotion that one doesn’t feel, right? If the leader is a secure individual there is no danger that this significance will be accompanied by self-importance or arrogance. We all know that when self-importance or arrogance is present, leadership is absent. The next requirement is the leader’s true belief that their employees do matter to them and to their organization. The final and most important piece of this approach is clearly communicating this belief to people with sincerity and humility.
Alchemy is a science that was used in the middle ages to try and change ordinary objects into gold; it can also be the source of a major shift in consciousness in a person or in an organization. True leaders are alchemists every time they succeed in initiating a shift in their employees from seeing themselves as being ordinary to seeing themselves as being “golden”. When this shift occurs, everybody shines. -wayne (www.waynewatsoncoach.com)
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