most leaders will find that if they steward this power well, the organization actually operates on a high level of trust and effectiveness. This may be counterintuitive, with many people assuming that any use of the power of office to force change will be resisted. But this is a false assumption. The truth is that people within an organization feel most secure when the leader leads. They know that their own hard work will not be thwarted by institutional lethargy. They can have confidence that, at the end of the day, the leader who holds that office of trust will force action if necessary.

