From the course: Executive Leadership
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Leadership with legacy
- The famous orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander said when he was 45 years old, after conducting for 20 years, he suddenly had a realization. The conductor of an orchestra is the one person who doesn't make a sound. He depends for his power on the ability to make other people powerful. Zander says it was totally life-changing. He realized his job, his mission as a leader, was to awaken possibility in other people. People in his orchestra came up to him and asked, "Ben, you're different. "What happened to you?" What happened was a defining moment for him and an invitation for all executive leaders because they're in the same position. They don't make the music. They serve the people who do. The heart of executive leadership is, in two words, serving others. If you've come this far in the program, I know that a commitment to serve is important to you. When I work with senior leaders, we zero in on where their commitment to serve comes from in their real-life experience just like Zander…
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