There's this misunderstanding that leaders are at the top of the latter. It is said that they stand on top and all the communication from the bottom needs to go upward and direction downward. It's what we've been taught in school and it's what we believe to this day. The truth is leadership isn't a position that stands at the top of an organization, leadership stands in the middle of an organization. Leadership holds the same distance between everyone, not only top management. If leaders don't hold the same distance with everyone across an organization, then they're just managers.
It's time we understand that leadership isn't about giving orders and ensuring numbers are met. Leadership is our ability to inspire people to believe what we believe. It is when we find people that have the same beliefs that we have, that we can lead. Not before. Leadership is the ability to understand people and the ability to see the impact our actions will have on their lives. If we can't see that, then we've lost our employees trust in making decisions and there for we've lost the trust our employees have on us to run an organization.
-Marco Adrian Ortiz
