Article September 24, 1979 Issue

Inspired leadership

NAOMI PRICE

Who is there to tell prime ministers and other chief executives what to do and how to lead? They may have experts and advisers to help them, but for many top people in large organizations—business, religious, and others—as well as in government, ultimate responsibility for leadership and decision-making is not shared. It's often said that life at the top is very lonely.

But it will not be lonely for those who gain an understanding of the true, spiritual nature of leadership. When one discerns even faintly what is (or should be) leading, and what constitutes reliable leadership, the burden will begin to lift. Moreover, when good leadership is recognized to be more a matter of spiritual followership—of consecrated adherence to a spiritual ideal—than a personal responsibility to find human answers, leadership will inspire more confidence and have more power to solve worldly problems.

True leadership, leadership that follows a spiritual idea, attracts the support of others. It inspires confidence that there is an answer to even the most complex of challenges, and a way out of even the direct danger. It reassures people that those whose human responsibility is to manage day-to-day operations have available a directing wisdom higher than human, and that this way is being discerned and obediently followed.

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