“True leaders are those who epitomise the general sense of the community – who symbolise, legitimise and strengthen behaviour in accordance with the sense of the community – who enable its conscious, shared values and beliefs to emerge, expand and be transmitted from generation to generation.”
Dee Hock in Birth of the Chaordic Age
Meg Wheatley, from a perspective of “new science” (quantum rather than Newtonian) sums up what leaders are for:
“People need a lot from their leaders. They need information, access, resources, trust and follow-through. Leaders are necessary to foster experimentation, to help create connections across the organisation, to feed the system with rich information from multiple sources.”
Grits and Grains 