Touch, Leadership,
& Productivity
Have you ever wondered what
creates a good leader? Is there
a set of formulae that you can
refer to when developing your
leadership qualities? Well, there
might be, but I’m quite sure
leading by formula won’t work
for most people.
So how then to great leaders
come about? How do they
bring people together to work
together cooperatively, which is
essentially the role of a leader? It
pretty much all comes down to
one thing: Trust.
We as humans are social beings,
and whilst we may have already
unity is only built through trust – it
can’t be ordered or dictated,
and it can’t be faked.
There are a few select things
that build trust. One is selfsacrifice through the spirit of
generosity. Another is physical
touch.
“we have perpetuated the dangerous belief within
society that touch is bad and to be avoided.”
heard this before, what does it
mean? It means that in order to
survive as a species we’ve had to
develop biological mechanisms
of trust that allow us to thrive in
community. Strength in numbers
is only real strength when those
numbers are working together
towards a common goal. Such
The thing about touch is that
we have perpetuated the
dangerous belief within society
that touch is bad and to be
avoided in any arena other
than intimate relationships. And
this is wrong for many reasons,
but mostly because it violates
our deepest biological systems