They are inspired. Not by being shown, which is only the first step in the leader’s task, but by connecting their personal needs and values with what the leader is proposing. Connecting is an act that arises from within the followers out of their own sense or degree of alignment. The success of the large vision aligns with their own personal vision of success---material, financial, but mostly spiritual---so that their involvement serves both the larger as well as their personal ambition. The only difference is a matter of scale.
The act of inspiration is equivalent to capturing the imagination of those who join and in that sense a oneness is created -- a non-manipulated, organic unity of spirit and effort.
A leader not only has a message he/she delivers in words but in spirit even more profoundly.
-- Jim Sniechowski
