Thoughts on leadership, direction, conflict and change

"I am a leader by default, because nature abhors a vacuum."  Desmond Tutu, quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, Dec 20 1984.

"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way."  Henry Miller, from his essay The Wisdom of the Heart, 1947.

"Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."  Saul Alinsky, 1971

I've been quoting Desmond Tutu for a while now on this blog; the Miller and Alinsky quotes are both new to me.  (I'm always, of course, on the lookout for any quote from anyone who uses the word "vacuum" in context.).