We don’t just need leaders, we need followers.
A friend, after decades of work in Washington politics, was thinking aloud about a commencement speech she was scheduled to give at her law-school alma mater. She didn’t want to give the graduates fluff. She wanted to be congratulatory while not being patronizing or feeding their egos. She wanted to make a point about gratitude and stewardship and about the fact that we are not the ones all of human history has been waiting for. Our friends and families and our encounters with each other and the world can be helped by our contributions to build on the good that has already been given to us.
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