The leader as an attractor for a community

A leader is an attractor in a community. The function of a leader is to "pull by attraction" the attention and intention of a community towards a possibility that is not automatic in the future (becoming) of that community. The possibility, while unrealised and not automatically going to occur, must yet be inherent in the realisation/development of the existing intelligence of the community within the society in which it operates.

A leader operates by being an integrator of what is so, what is possible and what is unseen or unexpressed in a community. This capacity requires contact, awareness, sensitivity and courage. It is not a matter of personal "will to impose" nor of isolated creativity. While the leaders may come from the outside, they must interpret for the culture, language and practices of the community.

Leadership is created by speaking declarations and establishing the practices - mainly linguistic - of maintaining the existence of declarations until they are real in the universe independent of the leader.

The nature of continuing the existence of declarations is a function of the integrity, practices, distinctions of the community. Many communities have very weak structures of persistence for the new. These communities emerge only dominating leaders or no sustained leadership at all.