I'm an InterVarsity staff member. I'm struck by how sheeplike people can be. At times no amount of verbal persuasion can convince a group to do something. But if just one person takes the lead and shows others the way, the group eagerly follows. The biblical image of a leader is not of a cowboy, after all, but of a shepherd.
Cowboys drive and push their herds from behind.
Shepherds lead their flocks from the front. God the Father is portrayed as a shepherd in Psalm 23. And if you are a leader in your campus fellowship, you are a shepherd in God's kingdom, too. Frankly, being likened to a shepherd is heavy stuff. The shepherds in Jesus' era carried a lot of responsibility.