CHAPTER 5
The Partner
If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
 
Lila Watson, as spokesperson for a group of aboriginal activists
 
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
 
Anaïs Nin
 
 
LEADERSHIP—WHETHERAT THE HELM OF A SHIP, AN organization, or one’s own navigation through life—can be lonely. Ultimately, we are solely responsible for the choices we make in response to what life offers us. Yet as leaders we can learn to lean into our relationships with others. We can find people who can be our sounding boards, trusting them to ...

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