If a community is responsive to the innovative spirit seeking to express everywhere, then its main goal will be to empower individuals - to draw forth leadership in everyone, rather than create dependence on leaders, no matter how enlightened they are. The new assumption is that people already have the potential wisdom and creativity within them, so the task of leadership is mainly to educate and encourage. How you set up a situation has a lot to do with how people respond. It can be structured so that people are encouraged and inspired to do things for themselves, to make their own decisions, and to take on more responsibility. An expectation of responsibility helps to draw that out.
People have tremendous creative power to affect each other.
This is not to say that there is no leadership function per se, but rather that leadership is educative, rather than directive. Zablocki, Benjamin, Alienation And Charisma. Please send comments to webmaster Last Updated 29 June 2000 .