A leader who recruits individuals has followers. Great LEADERS bring those followers together into a tight-knit community that supports and encourages one another. As a unit, they stand strong and continue working together to achieve the vision even when the leader isn’t there to help guide them.
Weak leaders fear people communicating, connecting, and coming together. They fear what people will say about them when they’re not there to control the conversations.
They fear that people will join together to oppose them. They fear communities rising up against them. That’s why they encourage division and focus on differences, hoping to use those as a wedge to keep people apart.
Great leaders recognize and respect that there is strength in numbers. They actively work to bring people together and cultivate unity among those who follow them by celebrating diversity, integrity, and service. They encourage people to be their best and elevate those who strive to serve others rather than those who seek to be served.
When Path To Publishing acquired The Price We Pay for its traditional publishing imprint, PTP Press, we saw in author Nikki T. Anthony’s writing a chance to showcase the differences between how great leaders act and how weak leaders act. That is one of the reasons we are launching a crowdfunding campaign to invite public participation in a movement we hope will change the conversation around race relations.
Our goal is to use that book as a means of creating shared experiences among readers that can foster open and honest conversations about the way that race relations impact the characters. Those discussions can then become a launchpad for open and honest dialogue about how our own personal experiences either differ or match up with the character’s experiences.
We believe these are important discussions to have and are looking for the right LEADERS to step up and join us in engaging in these conversations. We know that when it comes to race relations, the tendency is to talk about one another rather than to one another, but that strategy is why the divisions are growing.
We don’t want another generation to pay the same price we are paying for past failures to step up and do something about the growing racial divides. We want to ensure that everyone has a seat at the table and an opportunity to make their voices heard about this important topic.
To discover more about our work to open the doors of communication and change the conversation around race relations, visit our crowdfunding campaign’s page at https://ptppress.com/taking-a-novel-approach-to-change. Sign up to #JoinTheConversation and join our private LEADERS community.