Editor’s essay: Letting go in leadership

Abstract

One of the most important lessons I learned as a young mom who stepped up to volunteer with her children’s school PTA® is that leadership means different things to different people. I also learned that leadership looks different to different people and that each of us has mental representations of what a “good leader” looks like. Little did I know then that decades of scholarly research and thousands of publications on “leadership” backed up what I was experiencing.