leadership

woke up this morning thinking, what is the most important skill leaders must have?

and it seemed to me today, that this is not engineering, not financial planning, not scientific belief, not cultural depth, but story-telling.

leadership falls apart once your people stop believing in your story. different cultures use different narratives, and the leader in  that culture must master that narrative.

and this leaves me with the thought - there's something very magical about royal families and monarchies, because instead of telling the story, they have become the story. they are the people's ideals, incarnated in flesh. there's something god-like in them, in both their charms and their failures... but of course the people have stopped believing in this story...

what is the story your leader is telling you today?
is it working?