"leading from behind is the empowerment of other actors to do your bidding" It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. In his 1994 autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom,” Mandela also described it this way: I always remember the regent’s axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. So despite the funny phrasing, at the heart of the idea of leading from behind is the empowerment of other actors to do your bidding or, as in the case of Libya, to be used as cover for a policy that would be suspect in the eyes of other nations if it’s branded as a purely American operation. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/leading-from-behind-ob... Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/leading-from-behind-ob...
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