Leadership

Ta-Wan

As inferred by Chuang Tzu when he pointed someone to the futility of watering the ground when it is raining, it is silly to do a task when it is already being well taken care of. A designer of a wind turbine would not stand by and blow to assist the wind, a torch in the daytime won't illuminate much, you don't spin the pedals of your bike so fast that it tires you when already rolling down a steep hill or row your boat hard when going with the stream.

Effort is required to go against what is already happening, birds don't descend through thermals, vines don't reach out alone.

So Chuang Tzu asks anyone with eyes on leadership, or even one who questions a leader and offers an alternative, to ask themselves. If the bird does not go against the wind, nor the fish against the flow, why when Tao is so much greater than wind or oceans, does man not feel hilarity the moment leadership comes to mind?

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Why indeed do we seek to explain Tao when within us and without us it explains itself.

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